Party Elites in the United States, 1974: Democratic Mid-Term Conference Delegates and Sanford Commission Members (ICPSR 8206)

Version Date: Feb 9, 1996

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Principal Investigator(s):
John S. III Jackson; Robert A. Hitlin

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08206.v1

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Summary

This data collection was designed to provide information on the personal and political backgrounds, political attitudes, and relevant behavior of party leaders. The data center on the Sanford Commission, a group of Democratic party leaders who were appointed by the National Committee Chairs to draft the party's basic charter, or constitution, and on the delegates to the 1974 Democratic Mid-Term Conference who ratified the charter. This dataset, then, permits a comparison of the two levels of party organization leaders. Questions focus on the "representativeness" of the party elites at both levels as well as on their views of the important "reform" provisions included in the charter and their basic concepts of what a national party is and should be. The representation of minorities and females in the process received particular attention. Specific variables include characterization of respondent's political beliefs on the liberal-conservative scale, length of time the respondent had been active in the Democratic party, and the respondent's opinions on minorities in the party, party unity, national- and local-level party strength, party loyalty, and on issues involved in developing the charter. Demographic characteristics are also supplied.

Citation

Jackson, John S. III, and Hitlin, Robert A. Party Elites in the United States, 1974:  Democratic Mid-Term Conference Delegates and Sanford Commission Members . [distributor], 1996-02-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08206.v1

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Data Collection Notes

  1. Certain variables have been recoded by ICPSR to protect the anonymity of respondents.

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Sample

A systematic random sampling scheme was used to sample the Mid-Term Democratic Conference delegates. The official delegate lists provided by the Democratic National Committee were entered at random starting points and every third name was chosen. For the Sanford Commission, mailed questionnaires were sent to all members of the Commission in two waves of mailing. Those who returned questionnaires constituted the sample.

Universe

The universe for Mid-term Democratic Conference delegates was all delegates certified as eligible to attend the Conference. There were 2,043 such delegates. For the Sanford Commission, the universe was all 161 official members of the Commission.

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self-enumerated forms

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Original Release Date

1988-01-06

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:
  • Jackson, John S. III, and Robert A. Hitlin. PARTY ELITES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1974: DEMOCRATIC MID-TERM CONFERENCE DELEGATES AND SANFORD COMMISSION MEMBERS. Carbondale, IL: John S. Jackson III, Southern Illinois University, and Robert Hitlin, Georgetown University [producers], 1975. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08206.v1
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