The Congress as Research Arena: An Uneasy Partnership between History and Political Science: A Review Essay

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Introduction. Defining the Macropolitics of Congress

“…13 Erikson, MacKuen, and Stimson argue that public demand plays a formative role in determining the policies enacted. In the words of Heinz Eulau, legislators are "responsive" (Eulau 1993). Public opinion regarding federal policy is measured through the familiar conceptualization of "mood," which exists in a left-right (liberal conservative) continuum.…”