Leading Representatives
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Author | : Barbara Sinclair |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998-06-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780801857126 |
Download Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Recently plagued by gridlock, huge deficits, and deep policy differences, Congress has often been the target of relentless and bitter criticism. Asking how the House performs its legislative functions in such a context, political scientist Barbara Sinclair traces the emergence of a House majority party leadership that is highly active and deeply involved in multiple aspects of the legislative process.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1414 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Congressional Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author | : Randall Strahan |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801898986 |
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An in-depth examination of the role U.S. House leadership plays in shaping America’s national policy and political system. Many studies of Congress hold that congressional leaders are “agents” of their followers, ascertaining what legislators agree on and acting to advance those issues rather than stepping to the forefront to shape national policy or the institution they lead. Randall Strahan argues that this approach to understanding leadership is incomplete. Here he demonstrates why and explores the independent contributions leaders make in congressional politics. Leading Representatives is a study that draws on both historical and contemporary cases to show how U.S. House leaders have advanced changes inside Congress and in national policy. Exploring the tactics, tenure, and efficacy of the leadership of three of the most colorful and prominent Speakers of the House—Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Newt Gingrich—Strahan finds that these men, though separated in time and of differing thought and actions, were all leaders willing to take political risks to advance goals they cared about deeply. As a result, each acted independently of his followers to alter the political landscape. Strahan makes use of a wide range of resources, including the former representatives’ papers and correspondence and interviews with Gingrich and his staffers, to demonstrate how these important leaders influenced policy and politics and where they ran aground. In expounding lessons Strahan has gleaned over two decades of studying U.S. legislative politics, Leading Representatives offers a new theoretical framework—the conditional agency perspective—that effectively links contextual perspectives as applied to congressional leadership with those emphasizing characteristics of individual leaders.
Author | : Randall Strahan |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801886911 |
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Many studies of Congress hold that congressional leaders are "agents" of their followers, ascertaining what legislators agree on and acting to advance those issues rather than stepping to the forefront to shape national policy or the institution they lead. Randall Strahan has long argued that this approach to understanding leadership is incomplete. Here he demonstrates why and explores the independent contributions leaders make in congressional politics. Leading Representatives is a study that draws on both historical and contemporary cases to show how leaders in the U.S. House have advanced changes inside Congress and in national policy. Exploring the tactics, tenure, and efficacy of the leadership of three of the most colorful and prominent Speakers of the House—Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Newt Gingrich—Strahan finds that these men, though separated in time and of differing thought and actions, were all leaders willing to take political risks to advance goals they cared about deeply. As a result, each acted independently of his followers to alter the political landscape. Strahan makes use of a wide range of resources, including the former representatives' papers and correspondence and interviews with Gingrich and his staffers, to demonstrate how these important leaders influenced policy and politics and where they ran aground. In expounding lessons Strahan has gleaned over two decades of studying U.S. legislative politics, Leading Representatives offers a new theoretical framework—the conditional agency perspective—that effectively links contextual perspectives as applied to congressional leadership with those emphasizing characteristics of individual leaders. This engagingly written book will be of interest to political scholars of all stripes as well as readers inclined to learn more about the history and inner workings of the House.
Author | : Matthew N. Green |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Legislators |
ISBN | : 0300222572 |
Download Choosing the Leader Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Craig Volden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-10-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521761522 |
Download Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
Author | : Ronald M. Peters |
Publisher | : CQ-Roll Call Group Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780871879462 |
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Author | : Scott Meinke |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-03-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472119796 |
Download Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Electoral competition and polarization transformed leadership organizations and the nature of party participation in the House
Author | : Frank Newport |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2004-07-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0759511764 |
Download Polling Matters Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From The Gallup Organization-the most respected source on the subject-comes a fascinating look at the importance of measuring public opinion in modern society. For years, public-opinion polls have been a valuable tool for gauging the positions of American citizens on a wide variety of topics. Polling applies scientific principles to understanding and anticipating the insights, emotions, and attitudes of society. Now in POLLING MATTERS: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People, The Gallup Organization reveals: What polls really are and how they are conducted Why the information polls provide is so vitally important to modern society today How this valuable information can be used more effectively and more...
Author | : Jamin B. Raskin |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political questions and judicial power |
ISBN | : 9780415948951 |
Download Overruling Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The current five-vote majority on the Supreme Court may be the most divisive, anti-democratic court in American history. Overruling Democracy disputes the majority's awful rulings on third parties, race, high schools and corporations.