Evaluating Majority Party Leaders in Congress
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Daniel Palazzolo
Evaluations of majority party leaders come from three main sources: political scientists, media analysts, and members of Congress. Political scientists are the theoreticians. They have defined concepts and developed theories for evaluating leadership style, strategy, and strength. Journalists are the watchdogs. They regularly evaluate leader performance in response to contemporary events. Members of Congress then serve as the judges and juries. They occasionally advise leaders on tactics and strategies, and they ultimately have the ability to sanction or reward leaders.
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Evaluations of majority party leaders come from three main sources: political scientists, media analysts, and members of Congress. Political scientists are the theoreticians. They have defined concepts and developed theories for evaluating leadership style, strategy, and strength. Journalists are the watchdogs. They regularly evaluate leader performance in response to contemporary events. Members of Congress then serve as the judges and juries. They occasionally advise leaders on tactics and strategies, and they ultimately have the ability to sanction or reward leaders.
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- Evaluating Majority Party Leaders in Congress
- The Politics of Constraint: House Republicans in Retrospect and Prospect
- Senate Republican Leadership in Tough Times
- Orchestrators of Unorthodox Lawmaking: Pelosi and McConnell in the 110th Congress
- Assessing Nancy Pelosi
- The American Public's View of Congress
- Commentary
- East European 'Model' to Cuban Freedom
- Response or Comment
- Comment on "Searching for Voters along the Liberal-Conservative Continuum"
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- Review of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
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