Abstract
Rackaway characterizes Bernie Sanders’ challenge of Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and Donald Trump’s bid for the 2016 Republican Party’s presidential nomination as hostile takeover attempts. He argues that the combination of weak party organizations and strong partisanship makes such attempts increasingly likely. Rackaway provides evidence that a Republican Party rule change in delegate allocation inadvertently helped pave the way for a Trump victory, while Democratic Party contest rules made Sanders’ campaign strategy of focusing on caucuses unlikely to work to secure the Democratic nomination. Despite party organizations’ opposition to these hostile takeover attempts, their weakened state limits their ability to stop upstarts from taking over the party apparatus.
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