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Politics --- Mass communications --- Political psychology --- Rational choice theory --- Voting --- Affect (Psychology) --- Political psychology. --- Rational choice theory. --- Voting. --- Affect (Psychology). --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Polls --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Politieke socialisatie --- Psychological aspects --- Emotions --- Psychology --- Elections --- Social choice --- Suffrage --- Social psychology --- Balloting

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The Macro Polity, first published in 2002, provides a 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. 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. This book argues that the electorates and governments that emerge from these analyses respond to one another in orderly and predictable ways.

Political participation --- Public opinion --- #SBIB:042.IO --- #SBIB:324H30 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- Politieke cultuur --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses primarily on rules, internal structure, and the microbehavior of individual lawmakers, to look at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. It includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess current theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. All of the chapters take a Congress-centered perspective on macropolicy while still appreciating the importance of other branches of government in explaining policy accomplishment. The Macropolitics of Congress shines light on promising pathways for the exploration of such key issues as the nature of political representation. It will make a significant contribution to the study of Congress and, more generally, to our understanding of American politics. Contributors include E. Scott Adler, David Brady, Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Robert S. Erikson, Grace R. Freedman, Valerie Heitshusen, John D. Huber, Ira Katznelson, Keith Krehbiel, John S. Lapinski, David Leblang, Michael B. MacKuen, David R. Mayhew, Nolan McCarty, Charles R. Shipan, James A. Stimson, and Garry Young.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch. --- United States. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political