Byron E. Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His most recent book with Regina L. Wagner is The Long War Over Party Structure: Democratic Representation and Policy Responsiveness in American Politics (2019). 
Elizabeth M. Sawyer is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. She is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on "How the Sausage Gets Made: Constitutions, Rules and Norms in State Legislature." She also studies presidential nominations, campaign finance, and the nature of effective representation.

Chapter 1. Brave New World or Latest Twists on a Familiar Narrative?

Chapter 2. Deep Channels to a Presidency: Occupations and Careers

Chapter 3. Structural Influences, the Democrats: Factions and Constituencies

Chapter 4. Structural Influences, the Republicans: Factions and Constituencies

Chapter 5. The Usual Suspects: Nominating Rules and Nominating Politics

Chapter 6. The Usual Suspects: Candidate Strategies and State Sequences

Chapter 7. Eternal Bandwagon: Nominating Politics and the General Election