Explaining presidential popularity
In: American political science review, Band 72, Heft 2, S. 506-522
ISSN: 0003-0554
98 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: American political science review, Band 72, Heft 2, S. 506-522
ISSN: 0003-0554
World Affairs Online
In: American political science review, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 1660-1661
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American journal of political science, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 669
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 825-827
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: American political science review, Band 71, Heft 1, S. 44-66
ISSN: 1537-5943
Midterm congressional elections have been generally viewed as relatively sterile affairs marked by reduced turnout, party voting, and the play of politically idiosyncratic forces such as friends-and-neighbors voting. The usual reduction in the number of seats controlled by the President's party, according to the "surge and decline" thesis, simply reflects the departure of short-term forces which presumably benefited the president's party two years earlier. In this study an alternative thesis is proposed which considers midterm election outcomes within the context of the current political environment. Evaluations of the President's performance are found to be directly associated with congressional preferences over a series of midterm elections from 1946 through 1966. Moreover, controlling for party identification, persons who disapprove of the President's performance were generally more likely to vote and to cast their ballot against the President's party than were his admirers to support it. This "negative voting" bias helps to explain why the Democratic and Republican parties have performed more poorly in those midterm elections during which they occupy the White House.
In: American political science review, Band 71, Heft 1
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 20-44
ISSN: 1527-8034
During the twenty year period of 1945 through 1965 perhaps the most dramatic example of presumed presidential opinion leadership is President Truman's speech proclaiming what came to be called the Truman Doctrine. Delivered to Congress and broadcast across the nation on radio, the speech has been widely acknowledged as establishing the temper of postwar U.S. foreign policy. Historians whether sympathetic or critical of the Truman administration agree that this speech more than any other single event marks the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Moreover, its implications for the future did not require hindsight available only to historians. Immediately, contemporaries in Washington and abroad grasped that President Truman was advocating a fundamental change in the U.S. responsibility and posture toward the world.
In: American political science review, Band 67, Heft 4, S. 1307-1318
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 332-366
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 35, S. 332-366
ISSN: 0022-3816
SSRN
Working paper
SSRN
Working paper
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 44
ISSN: 1045-7097
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 198-229
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 198-229
ISSN: 0033-362X