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Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789-2024 by Gerald Gamm, Steven S. Smith

• Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789-2024
• Gerald Gamm, Steven S. Smith
• Page: 496
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780521709866
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Senate majority and minority leaders stand at the pinnacle of American national government – as important to Congress as the speaker of the House. However, the invention of Senate floor leadership has, until now, been entirely unknown. Providing a sweeping account of the emergence of party organization and leadership in the US Senate, Steering the Senate is the first-ever study to examine the development of the Senate's main governing institutions. It argues that three forces – party competition, intraparty factionalism, and entrepreneurship – have driven innovation in the Senate. The book details how the position of floor leader was invented in 1890 and then strengthened through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on the full history of the Senate, this book immediately becomes the authoritative source for understanding the institutional development of the Senate – uncovering the origins of the Senate party caucuses, steering committees, and floor leadership.

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