Representation & Leadership

Video: How House leadership is chosen and trained: A conversation with Matthew Green


How is the speaker and the other leaders of the House chosen? What factors who wins these races for power?

Prof. Matt Green of Catholic University discusses Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives (Yale 2019), which he authored with Douglas Harris of Loyola University.

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Kevin Kosar
Kevin Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author most recently of Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity...

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