Congressional Insurgents And The Party System 1909 1916

Author : Harvard University. Department of History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Insurgents and the Party System, 1909-1916 written by Harvard University. Department of History and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Holt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674162501
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Insurgents and the Party System, 1909-1916 written by James Holt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Holt offers a new answer to the question "What happened to progressivism in the Republican party?" The battles over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, the powers of Speaker Cannon, military preparedness, the elections of 1912 and 1916, and Wilson's New Freedom are used to exemplify the attempts of insurgent Republican Senators to reconcile progressive ideals with party commitment. But these men, Robert La Follette, Albert Cummins, George Norris, and William Borah among them, found that on the national level their efforts aided only the Democrats and that a third party was precluded by their own partisanship and their dependence on Republican constituencies.

Author : Jan Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092910
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30 written by Jan Wilson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its time, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women. Critics and supporters alike came to recognize it as "the most powerful lobby in Washington." Examining the WJCC's most consequential and contentious campaigns, Wilson traces how the group's strategies, rhetoric, and success generated congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. But the committee's early achievements sparked a reaction by big business that challenged and ultimately limited the programs these women envisioned. Using the WJCC as a lens, Wilson analyzes women's political culture during the 1920s. She also sheds new light on the initially successful ways women lobbied for social legislation, the limitations of that process for pursuing class-based reforms, and the enormous difficulties the women soon faced in trying to expand public responsibility for social welfare. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White

Author : Mildred Lehmann Amer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The United States Senate written by Mildred Lehmann Amer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451847
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State written by Robert Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress, Progressive Reform and the New American State uses a series of case-studies of reform legislation in Congress during the early twentieth century to explore the nature of progressivism and the processes of political change which resulted in the establishment of the modern American state. Among the topics covered are railroad regulation, labor relations, social policy of the District of Columbia, Republican insurgency, and the nature of Democratic progressivism. This work will be of interest to students of twentieth-century political history, the history of Congress, and the origins of the modern American state.

Author : Jeffery A. Jenkins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156441
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting for the Speakership written by Jeffery A. Jenkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Author : Gisela Sin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048796
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization written by Gisela Sin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, and the factional divisions within parties, affect US representatives' decisions on distributing power among themselves.

Author : Ruth Bloch Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316510425
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Bloc written by Ruth Bloch Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers? When they organize.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee System
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Senate committee system written by United States. Congress. Senate. Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee System and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Committee on Rules written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: