Biography quoted from David Mayhew Papers/Yale University:

Biographical / Historical Biography quoted from David Mayhew Papers/Yale University:

David Mayhew is Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus. He retired from Yale in 2015 but still teaches occasional courses. He specializes in U.S. legislative behavior, political parties, and policymaking. His books include The Imprint of Congress (2017), Partisan Balance (2011), Parties and Policies (2008), Electoral Realignments (2002), America’s Congress (2000), Divided We Govern (1991 & 2005), Placing Parties in American Politics (1986), Congress: The Electoral Connection (1974 & 2004), and Party Loyalty among Congressmen (1966). Aside from Yale, where he began teaching in 1968, he has taught at UMass/Amherst, Amherst College, Oxford, and Harvard, and has held fellowships at Stanford and CalTech. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Education:

-Killingly High School (CT), 1954 -B.A. Amherst College 1958 -Ph.D. Harvard University 1964

Positions: -UMass/Amherst 1963-67 (instructor & asst prof) -Amherst College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1965-66 -Yale Univ. 1968+; Sterling Professor of Political Science 1998-2015, Department Chair 1979-82 -John M. Olin Visiting Professor in American Government at Nuffield College (Oxford), 2000-01 -Harvard Univ., Visiting Professor of Government, spring 2008

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Selected Works of David Mayhew