caa a22 4500 386339953 CHVBK 20180307111746.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1961661 doi S0003055400088079 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1961661 Macropartisanship [Elektronische Daten] From an early, incorrect consensus that party identification was free of the short-term influences of political life, its aggregate, macropartisanship, drew little scholary notice. Though macropartisanship, typically seen as a biennial time series, appears essentially constant, our quarterly treatment demonstrates substantial and notably systematic movement of this crucial barometer of the U.S. party system. We demonstrate that it varies systematically with respect to time, has electoral consequences, and can be modeled as a function of economic evaluations and approval of the incumbent presidential administration. Macropartisanship, we argue, is a variable like others, subject to routine ebb and flow as citizens in the aggregate reflect their experiences of politics onto the parties. Its medium-term movements of considerable magnitude are lasting enough to matter but occur without connoting shifts in the underlying party system and can be understood without invoking the crises and convulsions of realignment theory. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 MacKuen Michael B. University of Missouri St. Louis Erikson Robert S. University of Houston Stimson James A. University of Iowa American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1125-1142 0003-0554 83:4<1125 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1961661 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1961661 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacKuen Michael B. University of Missouri St. Louis NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Erikson Robert S. University of Houston NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stimson James A. University of Iowa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1125-1142 0003-0554 83:4<1125 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge