UID:
almahu_9949597467002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780300240795 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Yale scholarship online
Content:
How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic 'Leadership in Congress', this text draws on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present - data including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts - to provide new insights into how the selection process truly works. Elections for congressional party leaders are conventionally seen as a function of either legislators' ideological preferences or factors too idiosyncratic to permit systematic analysis. Analyzing six decades' worth of information, the work finds evidence for a new comprehensive model of vote choice in House leadership elections that incorporates both legislators' goals and their connections with leadership candidates.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780300222579
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
