How are the delegates selected?
Two students are chosen to represent each state as delegates to the National Youth Science Camp. Delegates attend the camp the summer after they graduate from high school, and have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, leadership in school and community activities, and a genuine interest in the sciences. West Virginia’s Governor Joe Manchin III invites the governor of each state appoints a selection coordinator who initiates a competitive process to choose two delegates and up to four alternates.
” and “who are these delegates?” Your task is to understand this process and to understand the changes, the reasons for the changes and the effects of those changes regarding the selection of who gets to go to the conventions. b. Party (partisan) dealignment Traditionally, party identification was relatively high in the US. That is, when asked if they were Republicans or Democrats, approximately 80% of the public identified with one or the other major party. Though the general public viewed this high identification with suspicion, political scientists generally thought of it in favorable terms. For example, scholarly research associated higher levels of political information, participation and ideological coherence with strong party identification. IN other words, what political scientists found was that the stronger one identified with a political party the more likely she/he was to be knowledgeable about politics, to vote, and to have ideologically consistent views about the role of
