Understanding congressional leadership / edited by Frank H. Mackaman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mackaman, Frank H.

Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Leadership.

United States.

United States. Congress.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Press, [1981]

Contents:

Institutional context and leadership style / Joseph Cooper and David Brady

Senate party leadership, from the 1950 to the 1980s / Robert L. Peabody

House leadership in an age of reform / Charles O. Jones

Congressional leaders as agents of change / Roger H. Davidson

The "Me Decade" and the changing context of House leadership / Burdett A. Loomis

Majority Party leadership strategies for coping with the new House / Barbara Sinclair

The changing relationship between House leadership and the Committee on Rules / Bruce I. Oppenheimer

Majority Party leadership and partisan vote gathering / Lawrence C. Dodd and Terry Sullivan

Majority Party leadership and the new House subcommittee system / Christopher J. Deering and Steven S. Smith.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, held at Georgetown University Law Center, June 10-11, 1980.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0871872137 :

OCLC:

7977326