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LEGAL POWERS OF STATE CHAIRMEN: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PARTY BY-LAWS AND STATE ELECTION LAWS

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1971
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The purpose of this project was to determine the legal powers and duties of state political party chairmen, as enumerated in party by-laws and state election laws. The thesis is divided into six chapters, the most extensive of which contains empirical tests of twenty-six hypotheses pertaining to eleven groups of items organized from 235 judge-evaluated items. The groups are: Qualifications, method of election and term of office; Appointive powers; Removal powers; Vacancy-filling powers; Voting; and Functions of the chairman vis-a-vis the state committee, executive committee, subcommittees, local committees, state conventions, local conventions and elections. There are also chapters which analyze the 235 evaluated items, the effectiveness of the by-laws and election laws, and the relationship be tween the party scores and selected political and demographic variables. The final chapter recapitulates the major findings and conclusions. Ten appendices contain data utilized in the study.
Title: LEGAL POWERS OF STATE CHAIRMEN: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PARTY BY-LAWS AND STATE ELECTION LAWS.
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Name(s): DAVIS, DAVID MIDGLEY.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Huckshorn, Robert J., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Political Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1971
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 136 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this project was to determine the legal powers and duties of state political party chairmen, as enumerated in party by-laws and state election laws. The thesis is divided into six chapters, the most extensive of which contains empirical tests of twenty-six hypotheses pertaining to eleven groups of items organized from 235 judge-evaluated items. The groups are: Qualifications, method of election and term of office; Appointive powers; Removal powers; Vacancy-filling powers; Voting; and Functions of the chairman vis-a-vis the state committee, executive committee, subcommittees, local committees, state conventions, local conventions and elections. There are also chapters which analyze the 235 evaluated items, the effectiveness of the by-laws and election laws, and the relationship be tween the party scores and selected political and demographic variables. The final chapter recapitulates the major findings and conclusions. Ten appendices contain data utilized in the study.
Identifier: 13448 (digitool), FADT13448 (IID), fau:10297 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.
Subject(s): Political parties--Florida
Florida--Politics and government
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