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What Moves Macropartisanship? A Response to Green, Palmquist, and Schickler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Robert S. Erikson ,
Michael B. Mackuen  and
James A. Stimson
Robert S. Erikson
Affiliation:
University of Houston
Michael B. Mackuen
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James A. Stimson
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Abstract

Contrary to the claim by Green, Palmquist, and Schickler (1998), macropartisanship is largely shaped by presidential approval and consumer sentiment. It is not the case, however, that macropartisanship mirrors the ever-changing levels of current presidential popularity and prosperity. Rather, macropartisanship reflects the cumulation of political and economic news that shapes approval and consumer sentiment. Using ECM technology, we show that, far from being the weak force that Green et al. suggest, the cumulation of innovations in presidential approval and consumer sentiment largely account for the long-term trends in macropartisanship. For forecasting macropartisanship in the near future, it is better to predict from the fundamentals represented by the history of approval and consumer sentiment up to a given moment than from current values of macropartisanship itself.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 92 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 901 - 912
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1998

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