ABSTRACT
In analyzing different phases of the presidential-election game in Chapters 1 through 3, I treated candidates and parties as “on their own,” so to speak. To be sure, the models of voting in primaries (Chapter 1) and national party conventions (Chapter 2) allowed candidates to seek the support of uncommitted voters anddelegates, but competing candidateswerenot allowed to formcoalitions among themselves (e.g., to stop a front-runner).
