David R Mayhew

Datos Biográficos

ID362483
NOMBREDavid R Mayhew
NOMBRESDavid R
APELLIDOMayhew
FIRMAMAYHEW D R
AFILIACIONESYale University
ORCID0009-0003-0445-5950
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAS780
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1966
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H7

  • Intensity, Geography, and Time

    Open AccessDavid R Mayhew, Yan EthanARTICLEStudies in American Political…2025

    We consider three American policy controversies that have entailed memorable drives to repeal congressional measures. Those drives have targeted the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition), Section 14b of the Taft–Hartley Act, and the Affordable Care Act. We do not consider the actual conduct of these repeal drives. We consider the overall policy controversies in which the drives have figured. Components of this focus include factors related to politi…

  • The Historical Presidency

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2021Referencias: 16

    The United States has held 59 presidential elections, nearly half of which are covered in the University Press of Kansas's book series American Presidential Elections. Surprises, renovations of old understandings, and punctures of conventional wisdoms abound in this smartly rendered series. Surveying these accounts of elections past from the vantage point of a political scientist, with an eye for patterns and techniques as well as the rich substa…

  • Building a State and a Nation

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter analyzes three U.S. performances: the launch of a new nation, continental expansion, and national consolidation. The mid-nineteenth century, notably the 1860s, seems to have brought a spasm of special character across much of the developed or developing world. Centralizing states swung into place offering strong nationalisms, new constitutional formulas, a spirit of reform in state and economy, and a bent for commodifying property an…

  • Impulses and Imprints

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter traces the performance of Congress in a transnational perspective, which requires U.S. comparisons with peer countries. It explores patches of performance that have entailed large considerations of regime legitimacy, order, responsiveness, welfare, prosperity, fairness, state-building, and national survival or expansion in an often hostile international world. U.S. participation in large political or intellectual impulses has been oc…

  • Legitimacy, Messiness, and Reflections

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter presents transnational comparisons so as to show how the United States has performed distinctively. U.S. economic growth and foreign policy success have profited from its helpful size, natural wealth, and location, as well as an absence of powerful, aggressive nations next door. In many cases, however, the U.S. performance has been transnationally generic or close to that, offering little help for upside or downside readings of Ameri…

  • The Climate and the Debt

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter examines two major impulses of transnational incidence that have action blotters extending back decades: climate change and long-run deficit. Current evidence shows how it is not clear that peer countries are actually digging their teeth much deeper into climate change than the Americans. In a 2014 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, the U.S. ranked fifteenth in climate-control progress. Meanwhile, Am…

  • After World War II

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter considers three impulses of the post-World War II era. Two of them deal with the economy, bracketing its course from an inspiration flowing out of the war through an ideological and policy retake a generation later. The other impulse covers one of the major developments of American, not to mention transnational, history—the civil rights revolution of those times. In the three impulses detailed here, economic planning devices, energy …

  • Surges and Their Constraints

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter turns to three American “impulses” of post-Civil War times: building an industrial economy, taming the corporations, and the rise to world hegemony. In general, Congress, when it has differed with the presidency on foreign policy, has leaned toward inaction, often accompanied by cacophonous talk. Congress has often resisted or footdragged on White House aims for expansions, invasions, intrusions, annexations, and commitments abroad. …

  • Depression and the Welfare State

    David R MayhewCHAPTERThe imprint of Congress2017

    This chapter navigates the 1930s and groups two impulses into it: responding to the Great Depression and building a welfare state equipped with instruments of social provision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats blended these two impulses when they executed their New Deal in the 1930s. However, on current inspection, the blend is confusing and sometimes contradictory, and there is a difference in time span. Responding to the Great Depres…

  • The Imprint of Congress

    David R MayhewBOOKThe imprint of Congress2017Citada por: 281

    What kind of job has America's routinely disparaged legislative body actually done? This book provides an insightful historical analysis of the U.S. Congress's performance from the late eighteenth century to today, exploring what its lasting imprint has been on American politics and society. The book offers a unique perspective on the evaluation of the American constitutional system. It suggests that Congress has balanced the presidency in a surp…

  • Robert A. Dahl

    David R MayhewARTICLEJournal of Political Power2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 9

    What were the ingredients of Robert A. Dahl’s genius as a political scientist? First, he asked good questions. Those were ordinarily bold, broad questions central to political theory that appear at the openings of his works and orient them. Second, he was resourceful in creating or tailoring holistic concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘power’, as well as compositional categories such as ‘cumulative’ vs. ‘noncumulative’ resources, or ‘participation’…

  • Congress as a Handler of Challenges

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEStudies in American Political…2015Citada por: 3Referencias: 33

    Can the U.S. Congress address major challenges? Can Congress govern? Questions like these keep getting asked. This article addresses them by consulting the record since 1789. Given the separation-of-powers structure of the American system, such questions cannot be addressed directly. They need to be deconstructed. The presidency needs to enter the discussion, too. Also, what is a major challenge? To identify such challenges, and to supply a way o…

  • A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage

    Peter M Aronow, David R Mayhew et al.ARTICLEStatistics Politics and Policy2014Referencias: 5

    Much research has recently been devoted to understanding the effects of party incumbency following close elections, typically using a regression discontinuity design. Researchers have demonstrated that close elections in the US House of Representatives may systematically favor certain types of candidates, and that a research design that focuses on close elections may therefore be inappropriate for estimation of the incumbency advantage. We demons…

  • A Discussion of Fear Itself

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2014Referencias: 1

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  • Partisan Balance

    David R MayhewBOOKPartisan Balance2011

    With three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan conflicts as the national health-care showdown and Supreme Court nominations. In Partisan Balance , noted political scholar David Mayhew examines the …

  • Constituency Representation in Congress

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2011

  • Legislative Obstruction

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2010Citada por: 4Referencias: 8

    The Democrats dodged a bullet on health care in the spring of 2010, but the Senate filibuster is still with us. The 60-vote pivot, the cloture strategies, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), the member “holds,” and the rest are as basic as anything these days to U.S. national policymaking

  • Electoral Realignments

    David R MayhewBOOKElectoral Realignments2008

  • Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Presidential Elections

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2008Citada por: 22

    Journal Article Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Presidential Elections: The Historical Record Get access David R. Mayhew David R. Mayhew DAVID R. MAYHEW is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Congress: The Electoral Connection, Divided We Govern, America's Congress, Electoral Realignments and other works on American politics and policymaking. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…

  • Roundtable 3

    Samuel Decanio, Jeffrey Friedman et al.ARTICLECritical Review2008

  • Tribute to Nelson Polsby

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEThe Forum2007

  • Suggested Guidelines for Periodization

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPolity2005Citada por: 5Referencias: 12

  • Wars and American Politics

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2005Citada por: 33Referencias: 48

    Wars have been underexamined as causal factors in American political history. The nation's freestanding hot wars seem to have generated at least four kinds of major effects: policy changes of lasting consequence, new issue regimes, durable changes in electoral alignments, and durable changes in party ideologies. Considered here are the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II

  • Congress

    David R MayhewBOOKCongress2004

    In this second edition to a book that has now achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues that the principal motivation of legislators is reelection and that the pursuit of this goal affects the way they behave and the way that they make public policy. In a new foreword for this edition, R. Douglas Arnold discusses why the book revolutionized the study of Congress and how it has stood the test of time. The book also contains a new preface b…

  • The Opposition Presidency

    Open AccessDavid R MayhewARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2003Citada por: 5

    Journal Article The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History Get access The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History by David A. Crockett. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 320 pp. $39.95. David R. Mayhew David R. Mayhew Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 500–501,…