Choosing the Leader - Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives Green Matthew N.Paperback softback
Choosing the Leader - Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives Green Matthew N.Paperback softback The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional…
Specifikacia Choosing the Leader - Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives Green Matthew N.Paperback softback
Choosing the Leader - Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives Green Matthew N.Paperback softback
The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selectionHow are congressional party leaders chosen? House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present--including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts--to provide new insights into how the selection process truly works.Elections for congressional party leaders are conventionally seen as a function of either legislators' ideological preferences or factors too idiosyncratic to permit systematic analysis. In the first major study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S.
Analyzing six decades' worth of information, Harris and Green find evidence for a new comprehensive model of