Concept information
Preferred term
convention delegates
Definition
- EVERY FOUR YEARS, American national political parties gather to officially nominate their candidate for president and conduct other party business, such as deciding the party platform. The nature of these conventions as well as the number and selection methods for delegates to those conventions has changed over time. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Delegates, Convention]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/convention_delegates
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