The Active Minority: Continuation of Collaborative Research on the Presidential Nomination Process

这项调查将追踪参加1992年提名和大选的情况，以便研究参加总统提名活动和参加大选之间的关系。研究人员关注的是秋季总统竞选、其他职位的竞选活动和党组织的参与。此外，他们将把重点放在确定和跟踪政党制度的变化模式上。他们认为，总统提名是招募活动人士参加竞选和政党活动的重要途径。这是当代提名活动的一个被低估的后果，也是这次调查独特设计的目的之一。作为一项新的调查，研究人员将继续对他们在1980年选举中开始的总统候选人提名参与者进行长期跟踪。他们重新联系了他们的州大会代表小组，这可以追溯到1980年的提名活动。研究人员还继续他们从1984年开始的5波党团会议参与者小组，并重新联系他们1988年竞选活动中1988年横截面样本的大部分。此外，研究人员还从1992年的提名活动中绘制了新的党团会议参与者的横截面。所有样本都涉及民主党人和共和党人，他们在这一阶段的研究中的所有接触将在1992年秋季选举后立即进行。这项研究承诺大大加强我们对提名活动在招募活动家参加竞选和政党活动方面所起的作用的理解。

This investigation will track participation in the nomination and general elections of 1992 in order to study the relationship between involvement in presidential nomination campaigns and participation in the general election. The researchers are concerned with participation in the fall presidential campaign, in campaigns for other offices, and in the party organizations. In addition, they will focus upon identifying and tracking patterns of change in the party system. They contend that presidential nominations are important avenues for recruiting activists into campaign and party activity. This is an underappreciated consequence of contemporary nomination campaigns, and it is one that this investigation is uniquely designed to address. As a renewal investigation, the researchers will continue the long- term tracking of presidential nomination participants they began with in the 1980 election. They recontact their panel of state convention delegates, which reaches back to the 1980 nomination campaign. The researchers also continue their 5-wave panel of caucus attenders begun in 1984, and recontact the bulk of their 1988 cross-section samples from the 1988 campaign. In addition, the researchers draw new cross-sections of caucus attenders from the 1992 nomination campaign. All samples involve both Democrats and Republicans, and all of their contacts in this phase of the study will be made immediately following the 1992 fall election. This study promises to substantially enhance our understanding of the role that nomination campaigns play in recruiting activists into campaign and political party activity.