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Fighting for the speakership : the House and the rise of party government /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 476 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400845460 1400845467 9781283656771 1283656779 |