Congress
Subtitle: the electoral connection
By: David R. Mayhew.
Edition: 2nd ed. / foreword by R. Douglas Arnold.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: United States. -- Congress; United States. -- Congress -- Elections; Legislators -- United States
Description: 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. -- Publisher's Description.
Notes: Previous ed.: 1974.