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Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakersâ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006: | |
John E. Owens1  | |
关键词: legislative processes; legal studies; political science; political history; political behavior/psychology; leadership; | |
DOI : 10.1177/2158244016643143 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Sage Journals | |
【 摘 要 】
Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leadersâ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadershipâparticularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agency is thus discounted, and leadersâ personal characteristics and leadership styles are underplayed. Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first to the 110th Congress, we construct measures of each speakerâs commitment to comity and leadership assertiveness. We find the scores reliable and then test the extent to which a speakerâs style is the product of both political context and personal characteristics. Regression estimates on speakersâ personal assertiveness scores provide robust support for a context-plus-personal characteristics explanation, whereas estimates of their comity scores show that speakersâ personal backgrounds trump context.
【 授权许可】
CC BY
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