Hostile Takeover:

The House Republican Party, 1980-1995

Book Product Details

Author(s): Douglas Koopman
Published: May 1, 1996
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page count: 200
ISBN: 978-0847681686
Hostile Takeover front cover

Book Description

This detailed analysis examines the structure of Republican committee membership in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1980 and 1995. Douglas Koopman’s account of the House Republicans’ rise to majority status describes the strategies adopted by the Republican minority to oppose the majority’s legislative efforts. The author explains how their actions as a minority provide insight into the current and future Republican policy agenda. Delineating the motives of the House Republican leadership and their varying degrees of party loyalty, Hostile Takeover astutely explains that by transforming their resistance to Democratic initiatives into aggressive assaults on the entire majority agenda, House Republicans positioned themselves to take power after the watershed 1994 elections and to define a new range of legitimate political discourse.

Reader Reviews

This is a must reading for anyone interested in understanding the Newt world order.

William F. Connelly, Jr.

Washington and Lee University, George Mason University

Provides a valuable ideological anatomy of a much neglected subject.
A James Reichley

Senior Fellow; Georgetown University; author of The Life of the Parties, University of Iowas

Lucid, thoughtful, and well-documented, it offers new ways of looking at a timely and intriguing subject.
John J. Pitney Jr.

Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, Claremont McKenna College, Utah Valley University

This thoughtful analysis of congressional parties concentrates on the minority party and the role(s) available. Essential for college libraries.
Choice Reviews