TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Jeffery A.
AU  - Stewart,Charles
TI  - Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government 
T2  - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
SN  - 9780691156446
AV  - JK1411 .J45 2017
U1  - 328.730762 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Political parties
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American political history
KW  - Anti-Lecomptons
KW  - Clerk
KW  - Congress
KW  - Democratic Party
KW  - Democrats
KW  - House of Representatives
KW  - House officer elections
KW  - House officer nominations
KW  - House officers
KW  - John C. Calhoun
KW  - Joseph G. Cannon
KW  - Martin van Buren
KW  - Nathaniel Banks
KW  - Printer
KW  - Reed Rules
KW  - Republican Party
KW  - Second Party System
KW  - Speaker
KW  - U.S. Congress
KW  - Whig Party
KW  - coalition
KW  - committees
KW  - congressional elections
KW  - floor debate
KW  - majority party
KW  - organizational cartel
KW  - organizational control
KW  - organizational politics
KW  - partisanship
KW  - party building
KW  - party caucus
KW  - party strength
KW  - patronage
KW  - political parties
KW  - procedural cartel
KW  - roll call votes
KW  - secret ballot
KW  - slavery
KW  - speakership elections
KW  - speakership
KW  - viva voce voting
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; List of Abbreviations --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. The Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of House Officers in the Antebellum Era --; Chapter 3. Organizational Politics under the Secret Ballot --; Chapter 4. Bringing the Selection of House Officers into the Open --; Chapter 5. Shoring Up Partisan Control: The Speakership Elections of 1839 and 1847 --; Chapter 6. Partisan Tumult on the Floor: The Speakership Elections of 1849 and 1855-1856 --; Chapter 7. The Speakership and the Rise of the Republican Party --; Chapter 8. Caucus Governance and the Emergence of the Organizational Cartel, 1861-1891 --; Chapter 9. The Organizational Cartel Persists, 1891-2011 --; Chapter 10. Conclusion --; Appendixes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400845460?locatt=mode:legacy
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