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Choosing the Leader

Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Yale University Press, United States
Published: 12th Mar 2019
Dimensions: w 140mm h 210mm d 21mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN-10: 0300222572
ISBN-13: 9780300222579
Barcode No: 9780300222579
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Synopsis
The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present-data 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. Analyzing six decades' worth of information, Harris and Green find evidence for a new comprehensive model of vote choice in House leadership elections that incorporates both legislators' goals and their connections with leadership candidates. This study will stand for years to come as the definitive treatment of a crucial aspect of American politics.

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"Green and Harris present the best analysis of congressional leadership selection ever written. This book deserves to be read by every congressional scholar."- Benjamin Ginsberg, David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

"How have Gerald Ford, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, and others come to lead their parties in Congress? These are among the nation's major elections. This book is the definitive analysis of the question."-David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Yale University