The Macro Polity (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)

About this book

The 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 books macro and longitudinal focus makes it possible to directly connect the behaviors of electorate and government.