Who Tends to Win Races for the Speakership of the House of Representatives?

Matthew Green is the coauthor (with Douglas Harris) of Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives (Yale University Press, 2019).

Professor Green delivered a lecture to the Capitol Hill Historical Society on August 1, 2018 that presents much of what he and Professor Harris learned in their research on who tends to win the Speakership and why.

C-SPAN makes it tough to embed its videos in websites, so you need to surf to https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5111798/user-clip-matthew-green-house-leadership-elections-1960-2018 to view it.