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Cordial Concurrence: Orchestrating National Party Conventions in the Telepolitical Age (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
Cordial Concurrence Orchestrating National Party Conventions in the Telepolitical Age - Praeger Series in Political Communication Author:Larry David Smith, Dan Nimmo The phrase "cordial concurrence" pertains to a party's endorsement of a candidate at the national convention whose nomination occurred elsewhere. Since the candidate is the product of primaries and caucuses, the convention's primary function involves not the nomination of the party standard-bearer, but the mobilization of party resources in supp... more »ort of a decision rendered elsewhere. Smith and Nimmo examine how those partisan mobilization processes are coordinated, by the two major political parties, through political, governmental, and media institutions--especially television.« less