| Chapter 2: | Institutional Constraints: Job Description of Senate Majority Leadership |
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Chapter 2
Institutional Constraints
Job Description
of Senate Majority Leadership
There is in fact not even any fixed and general concept of just what a leader is and just what he ought to do, except that when the Senate is in characteristic mood and tone there is general agreement on what he is not and what he ought not to do. (White, 1957,
pp. 95–96)
pp. 95–96)
One cannot draw up for this post a neat list of authorities and prerogatives that describes its power adequately, if not exhaustively, as one can for a place in a tightly structured hierarchy. (Truman, 1959, p. 104)
Senate leadership in the 1980s remains an unformed commodity. Despite certain imperatives, the post still depends largely on the personality and priorities of the individual occupant. (Davidson, 1985, p. 249)
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