1. Use of the caucus or primary in your community.
2. The nominating convention in your state.
3. The Direct Primary in your state or community.
4. Legal control of the Direct Primary in your state.
5. The extent to which nomination by petition is employed in your state.
6. The representation of minorities in your state legislature.
7. Recent ballot reform in your state.
II
8. The framework of the convention. (Ford, Rise and Growth of
American Politics, chapter xvi; Ray, Introduction to Political
Parties and Practical Politics, chapter v; Woodburn, Political
Parties and Party Problems in the United States, chapters xi-xiii.)
9. The nominating convention at work. (Bryce, The American Commonwealth, vol. ii, chapter lxx; Ray, Introduction to Political Parties and Practical Politics, chapter viii.)