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Purposes, Procedures, and Outcomes of the Cooperative Research Project on Convention Delegations*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
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The official beginnings of the Cooperative Research Project on Convention Delegations date from the opening of the project office at the Association's headquarters in Washington on March 10, 1952. But the project had roots reaching far back into previous activities. Two committees of the Association had made suggestions for activities similar to those eventually put under way by the project: the Committee on Political Parties and the Committee for the Advancement of Teaching. In September, 1951, following the Association's meeting in San Francisco, the then chairmen of those committees, Bertram M. Gross and Claude E. Hawley, began actively seeking means of organizing field work and creating teaching materials on the forthcoming preconvention campaigns and national political conventions of 1952. For a time it appeared that a project along those lines might be organized under the auspices of the Brookings Institution; and the director of the present project became involved in the conversations. Later it became clear that if the project were to be organized at all, it would probably need to be under the Association's own auspices, although the cooperation of the Brookings Institution was an important factor in early planning.
By November, 1951 the Executive Director of the Association had cleared a draft proposal with the other officers and began negotiations with several foundations. One of those foundations, although uninterested itself, passed on the proposal to Dr. Will W. Alexander, an adviser of a newly established family foundation in New Orleans.
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1 “A Proposal to Study the Delegates and Delegations Attending the National Political Conventions in Chicago in July 1952,” 8. pp. mimeo., undated, prepared December, 1951.
2 The American Political Science Association (APSA), letter from Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, Executive Director, to Dr. Will W. Alexander, January 10, 1952, 6 pp. mimeo.
3 Cooperative Research Project on Convention Delegations (CRPCD), “Notes on Procedure in Carrying on Case Studies”, March 31, 1952, 8Google Scholar pp. mimeo.
4 CRPCD, “Tentative Outline for a Case Study Report,” April 4, 1952, 5 pp. mimeo.
5 CRPCD, “Report of Progress and Proposed Future Plans”, submitted to the Executive Director of the Association by the director of the project, August 19, 1952, 8 pp.Google Scholar mimeo. Attached to Executive Director's annual report as an exhibit.
6 14 pp. mimeo., issued originally as part of the front matter of “Part 1” of a preliminary and confidential draft of the project report, containing five state chapters, January 30, 1953.
7 APSA, letter from Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, Executive Director, to Dr. Will W. Alexander, October 17, 1952, 9 pp. mimeo.
8 APSA, “Progress Report on Cooperative Research Project”, Memorandum from Dr.Litchfield, Edward H. to Dr.Alexander, Will W., March 18, 1953, 10 pp.Google Scholar mimeo.
9 The project Advisory Committee met on December 12, 1953, completed its review of the manuscript of the report, approved it as meeting appropriate standards of scholarship, and recommended that the report be published by The American Political Science Association. As of December 16, approximately 85 per cent of the five-volume manuscript is in press and over half of it is in galley proof. Publication in April or early May by the Johns Hopkins Press is anticipated.
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