Majority Leadership in the U.S. Senate

Hatcher (political science, Sewanee: The U. of the South) provides a comprehensive study of the position of Senate majority leader in terms of electoral and functional constituencies, including the state, party, Senate, and president and how they represent constraints on the Senate majority leader, and the ways the leader balances demands with these constraints. Along with discussion of individual leaders, she covers trends in the selection of senators for the position, roll-call voting behavior, other tasks of the leader, the job description, the size of the leader's majority, and how the leader fulfills representational obligations to state or electoral constituencies. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)