Leadership Choice and Party Performance
The Democratic Takeover of the 110 th Congress—Editor's Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12383752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas B Harris (Loyola University Maryland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-47 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096508080062 |
| OpenAlex | W2116528110 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Having been out of power in the House since 1994 and in the Senate for 10 of those 12 years as well, congressional Democrats' takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections was an important moment in American political history. Having won the House and, somewhat more unexpectedly, the Senate by a bare majority, the Democrats recaptured control of an entire branch of the federal government for the first time since Bill Clinton left the White House. Controlling the levers of power in the House and the Senate—the legislative schedule, committees and subcommittees, and, to the extent that party bonds hold, the majority of votes in committee and on the floor—Democrats were poised to influence, but of course not unilaterally control, policymaking in the 110 th Congress and the conduct of the last two years of the Bush administration through key congressional resources including funding and administrative oversight. I would like to thank all of the authors in the symposium for their willingness to participate and their excellent contributions. A special note of thanks also goes to Sean Kelly for his encouragement and advice on this project from first conception to final completion. Thanks also to Stephen Yoder and Rebecca Fowler at PS for their patience and guidance throughout
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Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House
Information and Legislative Organization
On Capitol Hill
The Institutionalization of Leadership in the U. S. Congress
Goal Salience and the 2006 Race for House Majority Leader
Transformational Leader or Faithful Agent? Principal-Agent Theory and House Majority Party Leadership
McCormack Versus Udall
Legislative Parties and Leadership Choice
The 2006 Race for Democratic Majority Leader
Leading the New Majorities
Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection
Can the Democrats Deliver for the Base? Partisanship, Group Politics, and the Case of Organized Labor in the 110th Congress
Leading the Senate in the 110th Congress
Don't Have the Data? Make Them Up! Congressional Archives as Untapped Data Sources
Who is Nancy Pelosi
Congressional Leadership on the Front Lines
The Gingrich Effect
Party Leadership Change in the United States House of Representatives
Partisan Patterns of House Leadership Change, 1789-1977
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |