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Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)
Fighting for the Speakership The House and the Rise of Party Government - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
Author: Jeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Stewart
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691156446
ISBN-10: 0691156441
Publication Date: 11/11/2012
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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