Democratic Party’s presidential nomination contest in the 2020 election cycle

General Paper Requirements
• 5-7 pages (excluding title page and references), double-spaced, 12-point Times
New Roman font, and 1” margins.
• No fewer than 7 references.
• Students will use the Chicago Manual of Style’s “author-date” system for their intext
citations and references.
(https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html)

Your paper should lean heavily upon scholarly work related to presidential nominations,
widely trusted websites and data sources, and high-quality journalistic accounts of the
election.
Some Useful Sources Related to the Assignment
Bawn, Kathleen, Martin Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, and John Zaller.
2012. “A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in
American Politics.” Perspectives on Politics 10(3): 571-597.
Cohen, Marty, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2016. “Party Versus
Faction in the Reformed Presidential Nominating System.” PS: Political Science
& Politics 49(4): 701-708.
Cohen, Marty, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. 2008. The Party Decides.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (On reserve at the library).
FiveThirtyEight, “The 2020 Endorsement Primary.”
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-endorsements/democratic-primary/
Rothschild, Anna and Galen Druke. 2020. “Do Parties Or Voters Choose Presidential
Nominees?” FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/do-parties-or-voterschoose-
presidential-nominees/
Shor, Boris. 2020. “January 2020 Update on State Legislative Endorsements of 2020
Democratic Presidential Candidates.” https://research.bshor.com/2020/01/23/january-
2020-update-on-state-legislative-endorsements-of-2020-democratic-presidentialcandidates/
Skelley, Geoffrey. 2020. “Democratic Party Leaders Are Mostly Sitting Out The
Endorsement Race So Far.” FiveThirtyEight.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democratic-party-leaders-are-mostly-sitting-out-theendorsement-
race-so-far/
Steger, Wayne P. 2016. “Conditional Arbiters: The Limits of Political Party
Influence in Presidential Nominations.” PS: Political Science & Politics 49(4):
709-715
Preferred language style Simple (Easy vocabulary, simple grammar constructions)