TY - BOOK ID - 30696390 TI - The speaker of the House PY - 2010 SN - 1299463894 0300153198 030015318X 9780300153194 9780300153187 9781299463899 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political leadership KW - United States. KW - Speakers. KW - Leadership. KW - U.S. House of Representatives KW - House of Representatives (U.S.) KW - Palata Predstaviteleĭ Kongressa SShA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30696390 AB - Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker's party loyalty is tempered by a host of competing objectives, including reelection, passage of desired public policy laws, handling the interests of the president, and meeting the demands of the House as a whole. ER -