SGER: A Study of State Political Party Endorsement Systems in Gubernatorial Nominations

SGER：州长提名中州政党背书制度的研究

• 批准号: 9810472
• 负责人: Malcolm Jewell
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: Individual Award
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-15 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810472&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Study; State; Political; Party

This is a study of nine preprimary endorsing conventions to be held by political parties in six states in 1998, designed to replicate a similar study carried out in 1994 by the researchers in the same states. Although the nomination of candidates is theoretically one of the most important responsibilities of parties, the use of the direct primary, required for nominations by the laws of almost all states has, undermined this function of American State parties. But one or both parties in about one-third of the states uses some institutional mechanisms in an effort to influence the nomination of candidates for some offices. This study is focused on political party endorsing conventions, including ones established by law in some states and those provided by party rules in other states. The research is designed to answer several questions about operations of endorsing conventions: What is the decision-making process used by conventions and what are the criteria for endorsing candidates? Under what conditions is the candidate endorsed by the convention most likely to be nominated? How do convention delegates evaluate the impact of the endorsement process? The cross-state research design makes it possible to compare endorsements made by different types of parties; the replication of previous research makes it possible to enlarge the number of cases studied and to examine trends over time, including the declining success of endorsees in the nominating process. The investigators will visit as many of the state endorsing conventions as possible, to get first-hand analysis of the process. The researchers then send questionnaires to a sample of 350 delegates from each convention, shortly after the convention meets, in order to get factual information and impressions about the endorsing process. The data set to be gathered will be of value to numerous other scholars.

这是对1998年6个州的政党将举行的9次初选前支持大会的研究，旨在复制1994年研究人员在同一州进行的类似研究。 虽然提名候选人在理论上是政党最重要的责任之一，但几乎所有州的法律都要求提名候选人，而直接初选的使用破坏了美国州政党的这一职能。 但是，大约三分之一的州的一个或两个政党利用一些制度性机制来影响一些职位候选人的提名。 本研究的重点是政党认可的公约，包括在一些国家的法律和其他国家的政党规则规定的公约。 本研究的目的是回答几个问题的运作支持公约：是什么决策过程中使用的公约和支持候选人的标准是什么？ 在什么条件下，大会认可的候选人最有可能被提名？ 大会代表如何评估批准过程的影响？ 跨州的研究设计使得有可能比较不同类型的政党所做的支持;复制以前的研究使得有可能扩大所研究的案例数量，并研究随着时间的推移，包括被支持者在提名过程中的成功率下降的趋势。 调查人员将访问尽可能多的国家认可公约，以获得第一手的分析过程。 然后，研究人员在大会召开后不久向每个大会的350名代表发送问卷调查，以获得有关认可过程的事实信息和印象。 收集的数据集将对许多其他学者有价值。