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.

• Congress and Its Members
• Why Parties?: A Second Look (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
• Congress Reconsidered
• The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second Printing with a New Preface and Appendix (Harvard Economic Studies)
• Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking
• The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
• Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
• Home Style: House Members in Their Districts (Longman Classics Series)
• It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
• Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives