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Hostile takeover: the House Republican Party, 1980-1995

Name: Hostile takeover: the House Republican Party, 1980-1995
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ISBN: 9780847681686

Douglas L. Koopman

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This detailed analysis examines the structure of Republican committee membership in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1980 and 1995. Douglas Koopman's account of the House Republicans' rise to majority status describes the strategies adopted by the Republican minority to oppose the majority's legislative efforts. The author explains how their actions as a minority provide insight into the current and future Republican policy agenda. Delineating the motives of the House Republican leadership and their varying degrees of party loyalty, Hostile Takeover astutely explains that by transforming their resistance to Democratic initiatives into aggressive assaults on the entire majority agenda, House Republicans positioned themselves to take power after the watershed 1994 elections and to define a new range of legitimate political discourse.

Request Code : ZLIBIO679452

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Year:

1996

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0847681688

ISBN 13:

9780847681686