Convention Delegate Study, 1988: [United States] (ICPSR 6366)

Version Date: Oct 12, 1995

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Principal Investigator(s):
Warren E. Miller; M. Kent Jennings

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06366.v1

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Summary

These data represent the fourth in a series of data collection efforts begun in 1972 to gather information on the careers and political perspectives of the delegates to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Respondents were asked questions regarding their political participation and preferences, life histories, political goals and expectations, and affiliations with various groups in society. The dataset also documents delegates' attitudes toward political actors such as Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, Bob Dole, and Jack Kemp, among many others. Attitudes toward the women's movement, the moral majority, gay rights groups, abortion, environmentalists, business interests, defense, and minorities are among the issues also investigated.

Citation

Miller, Warren E., and Jennings, M. Kent. Convention Delegate Study, 1988: [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06366.v1

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Funding

Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain identifying variables have been restricted from general dissemination. Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that preserve the anonymity of individual respondents can be obtained from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1988
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Universe

Delegates to the 1988 Republican and Democratic National Conventions and respondents to CONVENTION DELEGATE STUDY, 1980: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 8367) and CONVENTION DELEGATE STUDY, 1984: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 8967).

Data Source

mail questionnaires

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1995-10-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Miller, Warren E., and M. Kent Jennings. Convention Delegate Study, 1988: [United States]. ICPSR06366-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06366.v1

1995-10-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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