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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Matthew Green, "Legislative Hardball: The House Freedom Caucus and the Power of Threat-Making in Congress" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Description: “You think I am crazy, and I know you are not” is what future-White House Chief of Staff and then-House Freedom Caucus leader Congressman Mick Mulvaney said to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. The two members of Congress were playing a game of chicken that helps explain the tactics and strategies at the heard of Matthew Green’s new book Legislative Hardball: The House Freedom Caucus and the Power of Threat-Making in Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Green is associate professor of politics at The Catholic University. He previously appeared on the podcast with his book Underdog Politics: The Minority Party in the...