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- Title
The Influence of Recruitment On the Structure of Power In the U.S. House, 1870-1940.
- Authors
Swenson, Peter
- Abstract
This is a study of the relationship between the recruitment of congressmen and the evolution of the power structure in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1870 to 1940. The thesis is that during the late 19th century increasingly strong political party organizations at the state and local level were able to dominate the recruitment process and selected party careerists as congressmen, who were willing to accept the discipline imposed by a series of increasingly powerful Speakers. As party organizations declined and their control over recruitment faded, a new generation of more independent congressmen rebelled against strong party controls, and congressional power became more dispersed, during the 1910 to 1940 period. The thesis is supported particularly by roll-call data from the 1910 fight over limiting the Speaker's power.
- Subjects
UNITED States legislators; POWER (Social sciences); POLITICAL parties; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; POLITICAL science; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1982, Vol 7, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439689