The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest: Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government

by Bruce I. Oppenheimer and Robert L. Peabody

"In this book, Bruce Oppenheimer and the late Robert Peabody analyze a key congressional leadership contest, the 1976 House Majority Leader race, and its place as a turning point in the transition of the House of Representatives into a more party-dominated institution. The core of this book is a lengthy paper on the 1976 House Majority Leader contest that the Peabody and Oppenheimer presented at the 1977 APSA Meeting. The paper is the result of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700636951
• ISBN13: 9780700636952
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages