The Speaker's Electoral Connection
Author | : Richard Allen Clucas |
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Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Richard Allen Clucas |
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Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Richard A. Clucas |
Publisher | : Institute of Governmental Studies Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Campaign funds |
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Author | : David R. Mayhew |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300130010 |
"Any short list of major analyses of Congress must of necessity include David Mayhew’s Congress: The Electoral Connection." —Fred Greenstein In this second edition to a book that has achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues that the principal motivation of legislators is reelection and that the pursuit of this goal affects the way they behave and the way that they make public policy. In a new foreword for this edition, R. Douglas Arnold discusses why the book revolutionized the study of Congress and how it has stood the test of time.
Author | : Alan S. Gerber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107095093 |
This volume provides an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance in contemporary American politics.
Author | : Jeffery A. Jenkins |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691156441 |
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 Jenkins and Charles Stewart show 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. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
Author | : James Richardson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520327268 |
This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented—Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, takes us from Brown's childhood, through his years as Speaker of the State Assembly, to his election as San Francisco's mayor. Along the way we get a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of three decades of California politics.
Author | : Stacy B. Gordon |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780415949774 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Law |
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Total Pages | : 982 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Alan Rosenthal |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0871879743 |
Based on a leading scholar's firsthand observations of legislatures as well as extensive interviews with legislators, legislative staff, and lobbyists, this important work describes and analyzes the contemporary state of legislatures and the legislative process in the fifty states. It explores the principal elements of legislatures, including the processes by which legislation is enacted, the impact of the media, political competition and partisanship, lobbyists and lobbying, the challenge of ethics, the role of leadership, and the linkage between legislators and their constituencies. Thematically, Alan Rosenthal argues that despite the popular perception that legislatures are autocratic, arbitrary, isolated, unresponsive, and up for sale, legislatures are, in fact, extraordinarily democratic and becoming more so. He concludes, furthermore, that the dangers to representative democracy today are substantial. The Decline of Representative Democracy builds on the growing literature in state politics and state legislatures. It also relies on the author's participant-observer research, interviews conducted especially for this book, and his years in the field. Many illustrative examples help to clarify the theoretical points made throughout the book, which in turn provide provocative sources of debate for students of the legislative process.