Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006

Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leaders’ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadership—particularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agenc...

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Main Authors: John E. Owens, Scot Schraufnagel, Quan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-04-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016643143