A data-driven approach to scheduling the U.S. presidential primary elections

Robert M. Saltzman and Richard M. Bradford

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022, vol. 79, issue C

Abstract: In this article we formulate and solve a model for choosing the grouping and ordering of state primary elections for a United States presidential election cycle. Our work fills a gap in the existing literature by defining a reproducible procedure for deriving an entire schedule of U.S. primary elections in a way that meets quantifiable goals of efficiency, equity, and effectiveness.

Keywords: Presidential primary elections; Scheduling; Clustering; Integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2021.101099

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