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The speaker of the House a study of leadership / Matthew N. Green.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300153194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JK1411 .S643 2010
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Contents:
Speaking and voting on the House floor -- Sam Rayburn and John McCormack -- Speaker leadership in the reform and post-reform House -- Leadership beyond the floor, 1941-1998 -- The Hastert speakership -- Goal-oriented leadership: trends and implications.
Subject: Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker's party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president, and meeting the demands of the House as a whole.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker's party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president, and meeting the demands of the House as a whole.

"An office of great honor and influence": the Speaker of the House of Representatives -- Speaking and voting on the House floor -- Sam Rayburn and John McCormack -- Speaker leadership in the reform and post-reform House -- Leadership beyond the floor, 1941-1998 -- The Hastert speakership -- Goal-oriented leadership: trends and implications.

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