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

by Robert S. Erikson (Author), Michael B. Mackuen (Author), James A. Stimson (Author)

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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 book's macro and longitudinal focus makes it possible to directly connect the behaviors of electorate and government.

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0521564859
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Cambridge University Press
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January 14, 2002
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Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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English
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6 x 1.24 x 9 inches
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496 pages
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"The authors of this ambitious, important work have crafted a dynamic 'macro' model of many aspects of US public opinion, when taken as a whole.... [T]he book's analysis is detailed and clear.... ^The Macro Polity is an impressive work that will be controversial and influential. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

"[This] long-awaited book does not disappoint. It is the first comprehensive study of U.S. macro political system dynamics over time. Their aggregate research design generates novel findings that are fundamental to politics and political science...Two pathbreaking contributions will linger with readers for a long time: first, the authors' work on drawing critical linkages among important macro processes that are typically studied in isolation, and second, the synergy the authors create by bringing together the two fields of micro and macro political behavior. Their extensive work accomplishes so much by shifting the perspective of political scientists. The Macro Polity will undoubtedly affect the research agenda of many scholars for years to come. It will be an early entry on any list of 'The Classics' in political science." Perspectives on Politics

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The Macro Polity, first published in 2002, provides a comprehensive model of American politics at the system level.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (January 14, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521564859
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521564854
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.24 x 9 inches

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Brilliant comprehensive look at American politics.

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Joseph Bafumi

Seminal Work in American Politics

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2009

If you really want to understand American politics from some of the best scholars who study it, this is the book to buy. Whether you're interested in voting behavior, political institutions, representation, policy or how they all come together in our American system of government, this is it. A truly seminal work.

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Stephanie Davis

Not a pleasure to read but a seminal work and worth the read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2014

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Anyone interested in research, political science, the electorate and their behavior needs to read this book - especially political science scholars (of all fields). It's not a terrifically fun read, but it is important to read. Any American scholar or comparative scholar should have this in their library.

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Questionable Theories and Poor Writing

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2018

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The underlying determinations of The Macro Polity have faced significant criticisms. (Consider Burstein, Paul. “Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications.” Social Forces 84, No. 4 (2006): 2273-2289. Consider also Achen and Bartels in Democracy for Realists.) More importantly however, this book is so poorly organized that even a highly educated reader will struggle to pull out the main points. While I disagree with those that would remove the statistics and methodology, this appeared to be a book of essays, prepared for highly quantitative audiences, with limited efforts toward clarity and concrete conclusions up front.

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Strong Premise Sunk By Tedious Presentation

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2004

This is a book that deserves to be influential in the field of political science, for both good and bad reasons. The theories presented here deal with macro-level or system-wide trends in American political behavior. If the authors can be believed, there was little previous work done in this area. Instead, political science focused on the behavior of individuals and then tried to aggregate the resulting data into system-wide theories. The evidence indicates that the behavior of the public is not always "the sum of the parts" and there are specific phenomena at play that influence the larger electorate, at the system level. The authors have conducted an impressive amount of research, which probably took years, including macro-level data about voting patterns, partisanship, ideological trends, presidential approval, and public opinion. Their conclusions about the existence of macro-level phenomena are generally believable and supported by the evidence, and their work will probably prove to be groundbreaking in the field.
On the other hand, this book embodies everything that is wrong with the academic side of political science these days. At least the authors will be accepted by their peers who value method more than insight. Here it becomes more important to impress one's peers by piling on endlessly repetitive evidence and trotting out unnecessarily complex statistical equations, all to prop up points that were already made convincingly in prose form. Each chapter in this book makes strong and believable points, but then degenerates into the worst of academic tedium, indicating that the authors chose (or were forced) to please ivory-tower editors and academic committees, rather than people in the outside world who could truly make use of their findings. Hence, we have a book with strong and often illuminating conclusions, sunk by the worst in academic writing and presentation. Next time these authors (and their publishers) choose to release their findings for consumption by the public, they should realize that this audience expects insight, not long-winded theorizing and statistics. [~doomsdayer520~]

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