The Failure of Jesse Jackson's Vice-Presidential Quest
Sailing Against Political Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George C Riser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-54 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-023-01-03 |
| OpenAlex | W1980725178 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Introduction. During the summer of 1988, many Americans suggested that the Reverend Jesse Jackson's quest for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination that year was quite viable. Some of the reasoning behind their conclusion was plausible, but, on balance, it was flawed because they failed to take into account a host of well-established traditions regarding the selection of vice-presidential nominees. Jackson's approach violated so many of those traditions that, from beginning to end, he was a most unlikely nominee. What is surprising is not that he failed to get the nomination, but that so many Americans, including virtually all of the news media, totally ignored these historical clues
Balance (ability · Democracy · Economics · Management · Nomination · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Vice president · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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