The Macro PolityThe Macro Polity provides the first comprehensive model of American politics at the system level. Focusing on the interactions between citizen evaluations and preferences, government activity and policy, and how the combined acts of citizens and governments influence one another over time, it integrates understandings of matters such as economic outcomes, presidential approval, partisanship, elections, and government policy-making into a single model. The book's macro and longitudinal focus makes it possible to directly connect the behaviors of electorate and government. |
Contents
A Model of the Macro Polity | 1 |
Performance | 27 |
Presidential Approval | 29 |
Expectations and Political Response The Character of Intelligence of the American Electorate | 76 |
Macropartisanship The Permanent Memory of Party Performance | 109 |
Decomposing Partisan Change | 152 |
Policy | 191 |
Public Opinion | 193 |
Elections | 237 |
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aggregate analysis average behavior biennium Bill Clinton candidate Chapter citizens coefficient cohort column components congress congressional conservatism conservative Consumer Sentiment correlation cumulative Democratic dependent variable dynamics Economic Performance effect elec election outcomes electorate electorate's equation Equilibrium Macropartisanship error estimate evaluation evidence Figure forecasts function future Gallup House ical ideological income growth Index indicators individual inflation issue Jimmy Carter Laws liberal liberal-conservative MacKuen macro macro-level major matter measure micro month move movement nomic observe partisan partisanship party control party identification percent Policy Activity policy change Policy Mood policy preferences Political Science politicians positions predict president Presidential Approval presidential party produce prosperity public opinion public policy question rational anticipation rational expectations Reagan reflect regression Republican response result Retrospections Senate shift simulation Standard Error statistical Stimson survey Table term theory tion tisan unemployment variables variance Vietnam War voters