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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400845460
035 _a(DE-B1597)453857
035 _a(OCoLC)979629778
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aJK1411
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072 7 _aPOL010000
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082 0 4 _a328.730762
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJenkins, Jeffery A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFighting for the Speakership :
_bThe House and the Rise of Party Government /
_cCharles Stewart, Jeffery A. Jenkins.
250 _aCore Textbook
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (496 p.) :
_b22 line illus. 68 tables.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
_v131
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tList of Tables --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tPreface --
_tChapter 1. Introduction --
_tChapter 2. The Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of House Officers in the Antebellum Era --
_tChapter 3. Organizational Politics under the Secret Ballot --
_tChapter 4. Bringing the Selection of House Officers into the Open --
_tChapter 5. Shoring Up Partisan Control: The Speakership Elections of 1839 and 1847 --
_tChapter 6. Partisan Tumult on the Floor: The Speakership Elections of 1849 and 1855-1856 --
_tChapter 7. The Speakership and the Rise of the Republican Party --
_tChapter 8. Caucus Governance and the Emergence of the Organizational Cartel, 1861-1891 --
_tChapter 9. The Organizational Cartel Persists, 1891-2011 --
_tChapter 10. Conclusion --
_tAppendixes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aPolitical parties
_xHistory
_zUnited States
_vElectronic books.
650 0 _aPolitical parties
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAmerican political history.
653 _aAnti-Lecomptons.
653 _aClerk.
653 _aCongress.
653 _aDemocratic Party.
653 _aDemocrats.
653 _aHouse of Representatives.
653 _aHouse officer elections.
653 _aHouse officer nominations.
653 _aHouse officers.
653 _aJohn C. Calhoun.
653 _aJoseph G. Cannon.
653 _aMartin van Buren.
653 _aNathaniel Banks.
653 _aPrinter.
653 _aReed Rules.
653 _aRepublican Party.
653 _aSecond Party System.
653 _aSpeaker.
653 _aU.S. Congress.
653 _aWhig Party.
653 _acoalition.
653 _acommittees.
653 _acongressional elections.
653 _afloor debate.
653 _amajority party.
653 _aorganizational cartel.
653 _aorganizational control.
653 _aorganizational politics.
653 _apartisanship.
653 _aparty building.
653 _aparty caucus.
653 _aparty strength.
653 _apatronage.
653 _apolitical parties.
653 _aprocedural cartel.
653 _aroll call votes.
653 _asecret ballot.
653 _aslavery.
653 _aspeakership elections.
653 _aspeakership.
653 _aviva voce voting.
700 1 _aStewart, Charles
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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