Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Democracy and the Constitution Clinic
Volume
January
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
The presidential primary processes used by the two major parties misses opportunities to engage voters and incorporate their input in selecting nominees. This report advances several reforms to make the primaries more inclusive, including reordering the primary calendar to give voters in more states a meaningful voice, eliminating caucuses, and opening primaries to independent voters. Additionally, the political parties should make primary debates more informative and limit party leaders’ opportunities to have disproportionate input in selecting presidential candidates
Recommended Citation
Daisy De Wolff, Ben Kremnitzer, Samara Perlman, and Gabriella Weick,
Selecting Representative and Qualified Candidates for President: Proposals to Reform Presidential Primaries, January
(2021)
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/1114
