Posted February 4, 2008 10:18 p.m.
Delegate Hunting: The Impact of Proportional Representation on Delegate Selection
Paper by Anthony Corrado & Tad Devine
In 1991, Tad Devine and Colby College professor Anthony Corrado co-wrote a paper outlining the consequences of the Democratic Party’s change to a proportional representation method of delegate selection in the candidate nominating process. Now, almost twenty years later, with the current state of the race for president, Devine and Corrado’s work has tremendous implications in the 2008 election. Take a look at their original analysis, as well as Devine and Corrado’s new memo outlining the significance of the Democratic Party’s proportional delegate rules in this campaign for the nomination.