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Caucuses and Primaries

Measuring Reform in the Presidential Nomination Process

University of Texas at Arlington

In 1968 battles over delegate selection rules and procedures for the national party conven tions erupted anew. During the following decade, reformers advanced multiple standards for the delegate selection and presidential nomination process. While many of these goals have been incorporated into party rules and into state or federal law, little research yet exists by which to evaluate how fully presidential primaries versus caucus convention systems achieve these various standards. A review of the 1976 presidential delegate selection process suggests that presidential primaries and caucus convention systems meet most reform goals equally well, although some differences are found between these two modes of delegate selection.

American Politics Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, 155-174 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X7900700204


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