Understanding congressional leadership
By: edited by Frank H. Mackaman.
Contributors: Mackaman, Frank H.; Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center.
Publisher: Congressional Quarterly Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: United States. Congress -- Leadership -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Table of contents: title: Institutional context and leadership style / Joseph Cooper and David Brady; title: Senate party leadership, from the 1950 to the 1980s / Robert L. Peabody; title: House leadership in an age of reform / Charles O. Jones; title: Congressional leaders as agents of change / Roger H. Davidson; title: The "Me Decade" and the changing context of House leadership / Burdett A. Loomis; title: Majority Party leadership strategies for coping with the new U.S. House / Barbara Sinclair; title: The changing relationship between House leadership and the Committee on Rules / Bruce I. Oppenheimer; title: Majority Party leadership and partisan vote gathering / Lawrence C. Dodd and Terry Sullivan; title: Majority Party leadership and the new House subcommittee system / Christopher J. Deering and Steven S. Smith.