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Selected Works of David Mayhew
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Theorizing about Congress
The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (2011)
  • David R. Mayhew, Yale University
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Abstract
This article discusses congressional scholarship within the context of some literature and analytical schools that have focused on the study of Congress. In this article, various rubrics, each of which featured in the Wilsonian sense, are analyzed. The rubrics discussed herein are: spatial dissonance; norms and rules systems under the framework of sociology, goals-oriented or purposive politicians, and formal theorists.
Keywords
  • Political Science,
  • Congressional Scholarship,
  • Analytical Schools,
  • Congress,
  • Spatial Dissonance,
  • Norms and Rules,
  • Goals-Oriented,
  • Purposive Politicians,
  • Formal Theorists
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 10, 2011
Editor
Eric Schickler and Frances E. Lee
Publisher
Oxford University Press
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559947.003.0038
Citation Information
David R. Mayhew. "Theorizing about Congress" The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/8/