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

Fighting for the Speakership : : The House and the Rise of Party Government / / Charles Stewart, Jeffery A. Jenkins.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Jenkins, Jeffery A.,
Stewart, Charles,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 131
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 22 line illus. 68 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of House Officers in the Antebellum Era
  • Chapter 3. Organizational Politics under the Secret Ballot
  • Chapter 4. Bringing the Selection of House Officers into the Open
  • Chapter 5. Shoring Up Partisan Control: The Speakership Elections of 1839 and 1847
  • Chapter 6. Partisan Tumult on the Floor: The Speakership Elections of 1849 and 1855-1856
  • Chapter 7. The Speakership and the Rise of the Republican Party
  • Chapter 8. Caucus Governance and the Emergence of the Organizational Cartel, 1861-1891
  • Chapter 9. The Organizational Cartel Persists, 1891-2011
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • References
  • Index

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