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Some Soundings in the Party System: Rural Precinct Committeemen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Leon Weaver
Leon Weaver
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University of Illinois
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Students of political phenomena have shown an increasing interest, during the past few years, in objective analysis of the functioning of party machinery and of the men who make up that machinery. If the publications on the subject which have come to the writer's attention are typical, the existing literature on party organization practically ignores such organization in rural areas and contains no systematic survey of the opinions and sentiments of organization politicians. The present study is designed as a contribution toward remedying this situation.

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American Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1940 , pp. 76 - 84
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1940

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References

1 “Party and Government Control at the Grass Roots,” National Municipal Review, Vol. 24, p. 16 (Jan., 1935).

2 There was not much difference between the parties in the percentage of voters voting for committeeman, although the percentages in the Democratic primary were a little higher.

3 Op. cit., p. 17.

4 Gosnell, Harold F., Machine Politics: Chicago Model (University of Chicago Press, 1937), p. 54.Google Scholar

5 The figures for New York relate only to Republican committeemen, and hence are not comparable with the figures for the rural Illinois counties in this respect, since the Republican party did not have control of state or federal patronage at the time the study was made.

6 Op. cit., p. 17.

7 The better educated committeemen may have replied in greater proportions than those less well educated, but the bias in sampling, if there was one, would presumably be about the same in both parties.

8 Op. cit., p. 17.

9 Gosnell, op. cit., p. 192.

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