{"id":1134,"date":"2017-09-05T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:51:58","slug":"improving-u-s-presidential-election-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/09\/05\/improving-u-s-presidential-election-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving U.S. Presidential Election Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pacific Standard<\/em> recently published an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/how-to-improve-the-primary-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improving U.S. Presidential election primaries<\/a>. The author poses a provocative proportion: &#8220;How to improve the primary process? Make it less democratic.\u00a0It sounds counterintuitive\u2014and would be a hard sell\u2014but making the way the two major political parties nominate candidates less traditionally democratic could also make it more open to compromise and negotiation.&#8221; Specifically, he argues that we should:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make the primaries and caucuses proportional rather than winner-take-all;<\/li>\n<li>Shorten the time between the first and last primaries and caucuses so that candidates who aren&#8217;t necessarily winning in fundraising might still make it to the end; and<\/li>\n<li>Make contests less about the candidates and more about the delegates.\u00a0This could include unbinding delegates from the voters&#8217; choices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Standard recently published an article on improving U.S. Presidential election primaries. The author poses a provocative proportion: &#8220;How to improve the primary process? Make it less democratic.\u00a0It sounds counterintuitive\u2014and would be a hard sell\u2014but making the way the two major political parties nominate candidates less traditionally democratic could also make it more open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[22213],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}