"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...