Mayhew and Bettinger Look at Obama’s Next Congress
David R. Mayhew, Sterling professor of political science, and Matthew I. Bettinger, a PhD student in political science, post a piece on Monkey Cage that gives a historical perspective of Congress over the last 100 years in “What Can Obama Expect from His Last Congress.”
The post looks at it from the election side, “From the White House standpoint, the fourth Congress is the worst Congress party-wise,” the authors write. And they look at it from the legislative side, the unlikelihood of the president “pressing and winning a domestic program after a second midterm.”
Area of study
Governance & Democratic Process