[3] In 2017, University of California, Berkeley professor Eric Schickler chronicled Mayhew's lifetime of contributions to the study of Congress in a journal article published in The Forum.
[4] Mayhew has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1968, and his students include several leading contemporary scholars of American politics, including the University of California, San Diego professor Gary Jacobson, Yale professor Jacob Hacker, and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Steven Calabresi, as well as many famous figures such as Detroit Lions Pro Bowl quarterback Greg Landry and CNN personality Chris Cuomo.
Partisan Balance won the 2011 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Award from the American Political Science Association.
The book analyzes congressional participation in a series of policy impulses that have invested the United States from the 1790s through recent times.
"[10] In 2004, he received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Award for lifetime achievement also from the American Political Science Association.