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Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government
Jeffery A. Jenkins
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Hardback. Shows how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. This title reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 496 pages, 22 line illus. 68 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
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. Jeffery ... Read more
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. Jeffery ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691118123
SKU
V9780691118123
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About Jeffery A. Jenkins
Jeffery A. Jenkins is associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. Charles Stewart III is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government
One of Choice's Editors' Picks for 2013 "An excellent look at the history of majority party leadership in the House."
Choice "[T]his is, overall, a sound and illuminating analysis."
R. Scott Burnet, Historian
Choice "[T]his is, overall, a sound and illuminating analysis."
R. Scott Burnet, Historian