David R. Mayhew, Date of Birth
TweetDavid R. Mayhew
American political scientist
Date of Birth: 18-May-1937
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About David R. Mayhew
- David R.
- Mayhew (born May 18, 1937) is a political scientist and Sterling Professor in the Political Science Department at Yale University.
- He is the author of eight influential books on American politics, and is widely considered one of the leading scholars on the American Congress.
- Mayhew has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1968.
- He has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Oxford University, and Harvard University.In Congress: The Electoral Connection, Mayhew argued that much of the organization of the United States Congress can be explained as the result of re-election seeking behavior by its members.
- In Divided We Govern, he disputed the previously accepted notion that, when Congress and the presidency are controlled by different parties, less important legislation is passed than under unified government.
- The book won the 1992 Richard E.
- Neustadt prize.His recent book, Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S.
- Constitutional System (Princeton University Press, 2011), contends that majoritarianism largely characterizes the American system.
- The wishes of the majority tend to nudge institutions back toward the median voter.
- Partisan Balance won the 2011 Leon D.
- Epstein Outstanding Award from the American Political Science Association.Mayhew earned his Ph.D.
- from Harvard University in 1964, and his B.A.
- from Amherst College in 1958.
- He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 2002, he received from the American Political Science Association the James Madison Award, which, awarded triennelly, "recognizes an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science." In 2004, he received the Samuel J.
- Eldersveld Award for lifetime achievement also from the American Political Science Association.
- In 2007, Mayhew was elected to the American Philosophical Society, and on April 30, 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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