The House and the Rise of Party Government
by
Jeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
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...