State Party Organizations, 1960-1980

Résumé du livre

Dataset examines the complex role of party organizational strength in electoral politics. Major areas of inquiry were the conceptualization, measurement, and identification of the determinants and consequences of party organizational strength at state and county levels. Responses were gathered from mailed questionnaires and personal interviews with various state party officials. Part 1 contains data collected from former Republican and Democratic state party chairs, 1960-1978 in the 27 sample states of the data collection. Part 2 contains results from personal interviews with both the current state party chairs, 1978-1980 and the executive director for each party in the 27 sample states.