DAVID R. MAYHEW Sterling Professor of Political Science and affiliated with Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Yale University, P.O. Box 208301, New Haven, CT 06520-8301 phone: 203-432-5237, fax: 203-432-3296 website: http://campuspress.yale.edu/davidmayhew/ EDUCATION AND DEGREES: Killingly High School, Killingly CT, 1954 Amherst College, B.A. in Political Science, 1958 Harvard University, Ph.D. in Government, 1964 Dissertation: “Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives: A Study in Intra-Party Coalition Patterns in the Postwar Period.” Advisor: V.O. Key, Jr. Yale University, (honorary) M.A., 1977 Oxford University, (honorary) M.A., 2000 TEACHING POSITIONS: Yale University: Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1968-72; Associate Professor, 1972-77; Professor, 1977-; Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, 1982-98; Sterling Professor of Political Science, 1998-2015, Emeritus 2015+ Harvard University: Visiting Professor of Government, spring 2008 Oxford University (Nuffield College): John M. Olin Visiting Professor in American Government, 2000- 01 University of Massachusetts/Amherst: Instructor of Political Science, 1963-64; Assistant Professor, 1964-67 Amherst College: Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1965-66 FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT: Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto CA, 1995-96 Sherman Fairchild Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1990-91 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, spring 1984 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978-79 Hoover National Fellowship, 1978-79 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, spring 1978 National Science Foundation award, 1972-73 Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship, fall 1970 and fall 1971 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, 1967-68 Frank G. Thomson Bequest, Harvard University, 1962-63 Ozias Goodwin Memorial Fellow, Harvard University, 1959-60 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1958-59 HONORS AND AWARDS: Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award to honor a scholar or set of scholars who have contributed a lifetime of significant scholarship to the study of legislative politics (LSS section of APSA, 2018) Member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Partisan Balance (2011) Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2007- Samuel J. Eldersveld Award for outstanding contributions to field of Political Organizations and Parties during career, September 2004 James Madison Award for distinguished scholarly contributions to political science during career, August 2002 Graduate Student Mentor Award, Yale University, 2002 1 Richard E. Neustadt prize for Divided We Govern, 1992 Fellow of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990- Honorable Mention, award of the Association of American Publishers for Best Social and Behavioral Science Books, for Placing Parties in American Politics, 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1984- Co-winner of Washington Monthly annual political book award for Congress: The Electoral Connection, 1974 Delancey K. Jay Prize for Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1964 Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1958 BOOKS: The Imprint of Congress (Yale UP, 2017) Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitutional System (Princeton UP, 2011) Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works (Yale UP, 2008) Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (Yale UP, 2002) America’s Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich (Yale UP, 2000) Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-1990 (Yale UP, 1991) --published in Chinese edition (translated by Chung-li Wu), Wu-Nan Book Co., Taiwan, 2001 --reissued with new preface, new chapter updating the coverage through 2002, and new appendixes, 2005 Placing Parties in American Politics: Organization, Electoral Settings, and Government Activity in the Twentieth Century (Princeton UP, 1986) Congress: The Electoral Connection (Yale UP, 1974); --excerpted for ch. 1 of Mathew D. McCubbins and Terry Sullivan (eds.), Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge UP, 1987) --excerpted for ch. 2 of David C. Kozak and John D. Macartney (eds.), Congress and Public Policy (Dorsey, 2nd edition) --published in Chinese edition (translated by Steven Jiang), Fudan Univ., Shanghai, 2000, with new preface by author --excerpted for ch. 56 of Peter Woll (ed.), American Government: Readings and Cases (Scott, Foresman, 10th ed., 1990) --excerpted for ch. 23 of Ann G. Serow and Everett C. Ladd (eds.), The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity (Lanahan Publishers, 1997) --excerpted as ch. 6-2 of Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith (eds.), Principles and Practices of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2nd ed., 2004) --excerpted for ch. 5 of David T. Canon, John J. Coleman & Kenneth R. Mayer (eds.), The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics (W.W. Norton, 4th ed., 2005) --reissued with new foreword and preface, 2004 --excerpted in Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts & Ryan J. Vander Wielen (eds.), The American Congress Reader (Cambridge UP, 2008) --excerpted in Samuel Kernell & Steven S. Smith (eds.), Principles and Practices of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings (CQ Press, 2009) --excerpted as ch. 9-4 of Cal Jillson & David Brian Robertson, Perspectives on American Government: Readings in Political Development and Institutional Change (Routledge, 2010) --excerpted as ch. 5.1 in Ken Kollman (ed.), Readings in American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives (W.W. Norton, 2010) --published in Korean edition (Dongguk Univ. Press, 10/27/2010) --published in Japanese edition (translated by Hiroshi Okayama; Keiso Shobo classics in political science, 2013), with new preface Party Loyalty among Congressmen: The Difference between Democrats and Republicans, 1947-1962 (Harvard UP, 1966) 2 SHORTER PUBLICATIONS: “Congress in the Light of History,” Starting Points (online), March 2018 “The Origins of Congress: The Electoral Connection,” ch. 15 in Alan S. Gerber and Eric Schickler, Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) “Patterns in American Elections,” ch. 21 in Richard M. Valelly, Suzanne Mettler & Robert C. Lieberman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) “Congress as a Handler of Challenges: The Historical Record,” Studies in American Political Development 29:2 (2015), 1-28 “Robert A.Dahl: Questions, Concepts, Proving It,” Journal of Political Power 8:2 (2015), 175-87 --reprinted as ch. 3 in David A. Baldwin and Mark Haugaard (eds.), Robert A. Dahl: An Unending Quest (New York: Routledge, 2016. (with Peter Aronow and Winston Lin) “A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage,” in Statistics, Politics and Policy 5:1/2, 2014 (with Matthew I. Bettinger) “What can Obama expect from his last Congress?” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, July 9, 2014. Reposted in RealClearPolitics, July 11, 2014 “The Long 1950s as a Policy Era,” chapter 2 in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Sidney M. Milkis (eds.), The Politics of Major Policy Reform in Postwar America (Cambridge UP, 2014) “Anxieties of Democracy,” for SSRC volume “The Democracy Papers: An Anxieties of Democracy Essay Collection,” spring 2014, http://www.ssrc.org/programs/the-democracy-papers/ “Is the Six-Year Itch Just a Senate Thing?” http://mischiefsoffaction.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-six-year-itch-just- senate-thing.html, January 13, 2014 “The Least Productive Congress in History?” Politico Magazine, December 23, 2013 “The Senate and the Nuclear Option,” Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies website, Nov. 22, 2013 “The Meaning of the 2012 Election,” ch. 9 in Michael Nelson (ed.), The Elections of 2012 (CQ Press, 2013) preface to U.S. edition of Malcolm Dean, Democracy Under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013) “The U.S. House Vote in the 1996 Election: Which Party Had an Edge?” The Monkey Cage, Dec. 6, 2012 “Politics, Elections, and Policymaking,” ch. 13 in Martin A. Levin, Daniel DiSalvo & Martin M. Shapiro (eds.), Building Coalitions, Making Policy: The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies (Johns Hopkins Press, 2012) “Understanding U.S. Presidential Elections,” Princeton UP Blog, April 2, 2012 “Lawmaking as a Cognitive Enterprise,” ch. 12 in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik (eds.), Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012) “Theorizing about Congress,” ch. 38 in Eric Schickler and Frances Lee (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (Oxford UP, 2011) 3 “Legislative Obstruction,” review essay centered on Gregory Koger, Filibustering (2010), in Perspectives on Politics 8:4 (December 2010), 1145-54 “Is Congress ‘the Broken Branch’?” Boston University Law Review 89:2 (April 2009), 357-69 “The Meaning of the 2008 Election,” ch. 9 in Michael Nelson (ed.), The Elections of 2008 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009) comments on “Political Ignorance, Empirical Realities,” Critical Review 20:4 (2008), 463-80 “Incumbency Advantage in Presidential Elections: The Historical Record,” Political Science Quarterly 123:2