Fighting for the Speakership : The House and the Rise of Party Government /

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jenkins, Jeffery A.
Otros Autores: Stewart, Charles Haines
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Congress. > House.
United States. > Congress. > House > Speakers > History.
Political parties.
Orators.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Political parties > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (496 pages).
ISBN:9781400845460

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