Congress: The Electoral Connection

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 by the author.

• Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
• Why Parties?: A Second Look (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
• A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition
• Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking
• The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
• Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives
• The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, With a New Preface and Appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)
• Tell Newt to Shut Up: Prize-Winning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution
• Congress and Its Members (Sixteenth Edition)
• Congress and Its Members