Fighting for the speakership : the House and the rise of party government /

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...

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Main Author: Jenkins, Jeffery A.
Other Authors: Stewart, Charles Haines
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
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