Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

by Douglas B Harris, Matthew N. Green, Douglas B. Harris

The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection

How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present--data including whip...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300222572
• ISBN13: 9780300222579
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"