This comprehensive collection brings together President Gerald Ford with leading political science scholars and practitioners to tackle the perennial debate over presidential primaries, caucuses, national conventions, and campaign finance, offering candid insight into how the presidential nominating process actually works, and how it might be reformed, making it a must-read for anyone studying elections, political parties, PACs, or the machinery of American democracy.  

How can the presidential nominating process be improved? In this volume, President Gerald Ford and an eminent group of political science scholars and practitioners present their views on the issues associated with nominating and electing our president.