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David Mayhew

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David Mayhew, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964, is Sterling Professor of Political Science. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hoover National Fellow, a Sherman Fairchild Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a member of the American Political Science Association National Council, a member of the board of overseers of the National Election Studies of the Center for Political Studies and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 2000-2001, he was John M. Olin Visiting Professor in American Government at Nuffield College, Oxford.  His research concerns U.S. legislative behavior, U.S. political parties, and U.S. policymaking.  Publications include: Party Loyalty Among Congressmen; Congress: The Electoral Connection; Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals; Placing Parties in American Politics; Divided We Govern; America's Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich; and Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre.

Campus address: 77 Prospect Street
Phone: 203.432.5237
Email: david.mayhew@yale.edu

 

 

 

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