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 comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today.
- ISBN10 1312272279
- ISBN13 9781312272279
- Publish Date 12 June 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English