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200 10$aFighting for the speakership$b[electronic resource] $ethe House and the rise of party government /$fJeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Stewart III
205   $aCore Textbook
210   $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2013
215   $a1 online resource (497 p.)
225 1 $aPrinceton studies in American politics : Historical, international, and comparative perspectives
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-691-11812-4 
311   $a0-691-15644-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- The evolving roles and responsibilities of House officers in the antebellum era -- Organizational politics under the secret ballot -- Bringing the selection of House officers into the open -- Shoring up partisan control: the speakership elections of 1839 and 1847 -- Partisan tumult on the floor: the speakership elections of 1849 and 1855-56 -- The speakership and the rise of the Republican Party -- Caucus governance and the rise of the organizational cartel, 1861-1891 -- The organizational cartel persists, 1891-2011 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Summary of house organization, 1st-112th Congress (1789-2011) -- Appendix 2. Election of house speaker, 1st-112th Congresses -- Appendix 3. Election of House clerk, 1st-112th Congresses -- Appendix 4. Election of House printer, 15th-36th Congresses -- Appendix 5. Summary of democratic and Republican speaker caucus nominations, 38th-112th Congresses -- Appendix 6. Democratic and Republican caucus nominations for speaker, 38th-112th Congresses.
330   $aThe Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
410  0$aPrinceton studies in American politics.
606   $aPolitical parties$zUnited States$xHistory
610   $aAmerican political history.
610   $aAnti-Lecomptons.
610   $aClerk.
610   $aCongress.
610   $aDemocratic Party.
610   $aDemocrats.
610   $aHouse of Representatives.
610   $aHouse officer elections.
610   $aHouse officer nominations.
610   $aHouse officers.
610   $aJohn C. Calhoun.
610   $aJoseph G. Cannon.
610   $aMartin van Buren.
610   $aNathaniel Banks.
610   $aPrinter.
610   $aReed Rules.
610   $aRepublican Party.
610   $aSecond Party System.
610   $aSpeaker.
610   $aU.S. Congress.
610   $aWhig Party.
610   $acoalition.
610   $acommittees.
610   $acongressional elections.
610   $afloor debate.
610   $amajority party.
610   $aorganizational cartel.
610   $aorganizational control.
610   $aorganizational politics.
610   $apartisanship.
610   $aparty building.
610   $aparty caucus.
610   $aparty strength.
610   $apatronage.
610   $apolitical parties.
610   $aprocedural cartel.
610   $aroll call votes.
610   $asecret ballot.
610   $aslavery.
610   $aspeakership elections.
610   $aspeakership.
610   $aviva voce voting.
615  0$aPolitical parties$xHistory.
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701   $aStewart$b Charles Haines$01533262
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