The Macro Polity

摘要: The Macro Polity, first published in 2002, provides a comprehensive model of American politics at the system level. Focusing on interactions between citizen evaluations and preferences, government activity policy, how combined acts citizens governments influence one another over time, it integrates understandings matters such as economic outcomes, presidential approval, partisanship, elections, policy-making into single model. Borrowing from perspective macroeconomics, treats electorates, politicians, unitary actors, making decisions response to behavior other actors. macro longitudinal focus makes possible directly connect behaviors electorate government. surprise macro-level analysis, emerging anew every chapter, is that order rationality dominate explanations. This book argues electorates emerge these analyses respond orderly predictable ways.