David Mayhew Will Give Three Lectures on “The Imprint of Congress”

David Mayhew, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science, will be presenting a series of three lectures on “The Imprint of Congress” starting September 22. As part of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs at Yale’s MacMillan Center, the talks will cover a wide range of congressional history and nation building.

In Professor Mayhew’s words:

“I look at Congress’s performance in a series of thirteen impulses that have invested a collection of peer countries, including the United States, since 1787. These include launching a new nation, consolidating a national state and national identity in the mid-nineteenth century, taming the corporations and rich in the decades around 1900, building a welfare state, the civil rights revolution after World War II, and generating a booming economy after World War II.  For recent times, these impulses include responding to the climate change and debt/deficits problems that are on the table now.  In these instances and others, to probe congressional performance as I do it requires a look at presidential performance and that of the U.S. system as a whole, too.” 

The Schedule of talks will be held at the MacMillan Center’s Luce Hall:

Tuesday, September 22
“The Imprint of Congress: How to Think about It”

Wednesday, September 23
“The Imprint of Congress: The History”

Tuesday, September 29
“The Imprint of Congress: An Assessment”

Read Yale News on the Lectures Series. 

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