The Macro Polity

2002-01-14 • 500 sayfa • EN

Yazan Robert S. Erikson, Michael MacKuen, James A. Stimson

Borrowing from the perspective of macroeconomics, it treats electorates, politicians, and governments as unitary actors, making decisions in response to the behavior of other actors. The macro and longitudinal focus makes it possible to directly connect the behaviors of electorate and government. The surprise of macro-level analysis, emerging anew in every chapter, is that order and rationality dominate explanations.