Evaluation of the National Convention as a means for setting party policy

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Dr. Albert B. Martin Dr. William J. Keefe Dr. Edward F. Cooke Robert J. McCully Citizenship Clearing House of Western Pennsylvania WQED Pittsburgh Paul Long Warren R. Smith Inc.

Format: 16mm

Description: The panel takes up the importance of the national convention in drafting a party platform and important intra-party conflicts which have developed over the drafting of such platforms at recent conventions. Along these same lines, the panel considers the procedure used to draft the platform and the question of whether the platform is drafted to represent the policy position of the candidate or for the candidate to stand on.

Complete Record: The panel takes up the importance of the national convention in drafting a party platform and important intra-party conflicts which have developed over the drafting of such platforms at recent conventions. Along these same lines, the panel considers the procedure used to draft the platform and the question of whether the platform is drafted to represent the policy position of the candidate or for the candidate to stand on.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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