Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
Biographic Data
| ID | 2091730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Eshbaugh-Soha |
| SIGNATURE | ESHBAUGH-SOHA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6935-3678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The President’s Immigration Executive Actions
What explains the president’s executive actions on immigration? Although research has detailed how the political context motivates presidents to issue executive orders broadly, limited research has applied these expectations to a specific policy area, like immigration. Moreover, this literature has not viewed executive actions as part of the larger policy agendas system, which may also shape presidents’ executive actions on immigration. Building …
Presidential References to Executive Actions in Public Comments on Supreme Court Cases
Why do presidents reference executive actions in their public commentary on Supreme Court cases? We contend that presidents are motivated by their policy and reelection goals to respond strategically through executive action on Court cases that they address publicly. Presidents who tie their executive actions to Court cases may add legitimacy to those actions, thereby bolstering their policy choices in the eyes of the public, Congress, and the Co…
Local Newspaper Coverage of Congress
Objectives In the early 2000s, a large literature concluded that local newspapers cover members of Congress in predictable ways to fulfill their quintessential and informative role in a democracy. Since these publications, however, local newspapers have consolidated, reduced coverage, and even disappeared, a trend that has continued post‐Covid. The task of this article is to assess the congressional news environment amid these cataclysmic shifts …
Explaining Presidential Attention to Cabinet Nominees
The tone of the president's immigration rhetoric
We examine the tone of the president's immigration policy speeches as a function of the political context, policy characteristics, and individual presidents in two ways. First, we describe the tone of the president's immigration rhetoric using DICTION software and its five global categories of tone. Second, we hypothesize that commonality and optimism, two categories of tone expressive of immigration policy, will co‐vary by political context, pol…
Trumpism
Since he won a surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election, scholars have devoted considerable attention to explaining the rise and fall of Donald J. Trump. Carter A. Wilson builds upon this growing literature by defining “Trumpism” while emphasizing the political, economic, and societal conditions that gave rise to Trump and the policies that he promoted. To begin, Wilson skillfully explores Trump’s brand of populism. Noting the differenc…
The Supreme Court, the President, and Congress
Presidents may react to Supreme Court decisions by supporting or opposing them in their public rhetoric and by calling on Congress to take action to alter or implement the Court’s decisions. We investigate this unique form of lawmaking using an original database of presidential calls to Congress and congressional reactions. We find that presidents call for congressional action to pursue their policy goals and enhance the power of the presidency; …
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric
Although research on immigration politics is extensive, few scholars have systematically connected immigration politics to the president’s rhetoric over time. This is surprising since all modern presidents have referenced immigration in their public statements and presidents play a central role in setting the policy agenda. The primary purpose of this paper is to explain the president’s immigration rhetoric since 1953. Thus, we collect all presid…
The Immigration Rhetoric of Donald Trump
Donald Trump's rise to the presidency included frequent and divisive public remarks on immigration. He not only promised to secure the border by building a wall, but he also assured his supporters that Mexico would pay for it! Nevertheless, we know little about how frequently and in what ways President Trump spoke about immigration. Moreover, was Donald Trump's rhetoric mere bluster, or did it affect Congress and the public in measurable ways? To…
Gallagher, Thomas. The American Presidency and Entertainment Media
Gallagher, Thomas. The American Presidency and Entertainment Media: How Technology Affects Political Communication." Congress & the Presidency, 45(2), pp. 214–215
Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality
Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional an…
Presidential rhetoric, agency turnover, and the importance of salience to bureaucratic leadership
What explains the quit rates of federal agencies? Can presidential rhetoric affect quit rates of federal agencies, particularly those that implement salient policies? Although much research examines other ways presidents may affect the federal bureaucracy, absent is a systematic examination of presidential leadership of agency quit rates, despite the importance of personnel turnover to effective bureaucratic implementation. I argue that president…
Presidential Leadership of Partisan News
The purpose of this article is to examine the partisan slant of cable news coverage of the unemployment rate and the impact presidential speeches have on this coverage. I examine coverage of the monthly release of the unemployment rate from September 2005 through April 2015 for programs on all three major cable networks: The Situation Room, Special Report, and Hardball. Although the partisan leaning of these sources may affect coverage, president…
Presidential Speeches Amid a More Centralized and Unified Congress
In his seminal work, Going Public, Samuel Kernell (1987 Kernell, Samuel. 1987. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. Washington, DC: CQ Press. [Google Scholar]) argued that changes in the congressional bargaining environment incentivized an increase in presidential speeches. Although subsequent research rejected that these changes increased speeches, Congress continues to evolve, having become more centralized and unified (by p…
The Invisible Bridge
Presidential Agenda-Setting of Traditional and Nontraditional News Media
The president's ability to influence the news agenda is central to the study of American politics. Although there is a large literature that examines presidential agenda-setting vis-à-vis traditional news sources, such as newspapers or broadcast television networks, there is little research that explores the effects of presidential agenda leadership of nontraditional media whether online or cable television. This study remedies this state of affa…
Presidential Rhetoric and Supreme Court Decisions
Despite the centrality of speeches to the American presidency, no research has specifically investigated the frequency of presidential public commentary about Supreme Court decisions. We do so and also examine why presidents discuss Supreme Court cases in their public comments from the Eisenhower to Obama administrations. Our empirical findings support our theoretical expectations in two primary ways. First, presidents speak most frequently after…
The Tone of Spanish‐Language Presidential News Coverage
Objectives I explore whether the tendency of English‐language news broadcasts to favor negative coverage of the president contrasts with Spanish‐language news coverage of the president, especially because a Latino news audience should prefer more positive stories of a Democratic president. I also examine whether presidential speeches and the political environment influence the tone of presidential news coverage. Methods I describe the tone of pre…
Presidential and Media Leadership of Public Opinion on Iraq
Much research disputes the president's ability to lead public opinion and shows media to have influenced public opinion concerning the war in Iraq. We argue that although news tone is likely to have affected public support for the war, presidential rhetoric could be influential for two reasons. First, heightened presidential attention to the war increases the public's accessibility to the president's perspective on the war. Second, a survey quest…
Presidential Position Taking and the Puzzle of Representation
A significant debate rages in the literature. Although going public success is a function of mass public support for a policy, presidents respond to partisan liberalism in their public rhetoric. This presents a puzzle: how do presidents reconcile their need to target policies that are popular with the mass public to go public successfully, when they respond primarily to partisan opinion in their speeches? Our comparison of the president's policy …
The Presidential Road Show
The President on Spanish‐Language Television News
Objectives Different audience demographics and preferences should produce significant descriptive differences in the content of presidential news, with Noticiero Telemundo (Telemundo) newscasts offering more treatment of presidential news concerning issues pertinent to Latinos than NBC Nightly News (NBC). In addition, presidents can influence Spanish‐language news by targeting policy issues and locations most relevant to Latinos. Methods We offer…
Presidential Influence of the News Media
Can presidents influence news coverage through their press conferences? Scant research has explored this question leaving two possible answers. On the one hand, presidential news management efforts, combined with norms of journalistic professionalism and the cost of producing news, suggest that the nightly news will cover presidential press conferences. On the other hand, the costs of delivering press conferences espoused by some scholars insinua…
Transforming America
Presidential Speeches and the Stages of the Legislative Process
Presidents go public frequently to increase their success in Congress. Yet scholars know little about when presidents speak within the legislative process or why. If presidential speeches are indeed a source of power for presidents, then presidents are likely to use them throughout the legislative process, not speak only to affect final passage. We argue that presidents speak generally to meet broad electoral and political goals, but target speec…
Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation
The topic of presidential success in Congress is central to the study of American politics. Yet existing research does not sufficiently assess the president's success at shaping the substance of legislation. To help remedy this deficiency, the authors measure the degree of presidential success on 191 important statutes from 1965 to 2000 and find that presidents typically accept significant concessions to ensure passage of legislation. Using facto…
Presidents and the Economic Agenda
The president’s ability to influence the national policy agenda is an important component of presidential power. Although some maintain that presidents are favorably situated to set agendas, others demonstrate that the president’s agenda-setting skills vary considerably by policy area. What is more, scholars have yet to examine the impact presidents have had focusing attention on the economy, an issue of vital importance to their political succes…
The Politics of Presidential Agendas
Past research holds that if presidents are to increase their success in Congress, they must set the policy agenda in their favor. But what determines the propensity of presidents to propose or support different policies? Because presidents influence the agenda-setting stage of the policy process, presidents develop their yearly domestic policy agendas in anticipation of each policy’s success or failure in Congress. After all, presidents want to e…
The Agenda-Setting Impact of Major Presidential TV Addresses
The ability to set the national agenda is an important power of the modern presidency. Policy-specific, nationally televised speeches provide presidents with the best rhetorical opportunity to set the national agenda; however, research on presidential agenda setting has not systematically explored their effects. Although the conventional understanding of presidential agenda setting suggests that presidents should be able to focus media attention …
The Conditioning Effects of Policy Salience and Complexity on American Political Institutions
Years ago, Bill Gormley introduced public policy scholars to a new and innovative salience‐ complexity typology for regulatory policies. This typology not only helps scholars catalog numerous policies into distinct categories, but also helps explain variation in political processes. Specifically, different policies provide different incentives for political actors to be involved in policymaking. Salience encourages activity on the part of elected…
The Tone of Local Presidential News Coverage
There is little research on the tone of local news coverage of the presidency, despite the public's preference for local rather than national news. I use theories of media politics, based primarily on the profit-seeker model of news coverage, to explore the impact of newspaper characteristics, audience preferences, and story characteristics on local newspaper coverage of the presidency. Based on a sample of 288 stories taken from the Bill Clinton…
Presidential Influence of the News Media
Can presidents influence news coverage through their press conferences? Scant research has explored this question leaving two possible answers. On the one hand, presidential news management efforts, combined with norms of journalistic professionalism and the cost of producing news, suggest that the nightly news will cover presidential press conferences. On the other hand, the costs of delivering press conferences espoused by some scholars insinua…
Presidential Influence Over the Systemic Agenda
One of the most widely accepted sources of presidential power is agenda setting. Being able to affect the media's agenda on key issues–influencing the systemic agenda and expanding the scope of conflict–has enormous consequences for the president's ability to govern effectively. Yet the literature to date has not conclusively determined the extent to which presidents consistently set agendas, especially over the media, because it has not explicit…
The Politics of Presidential Speeches
Speeches are vital to modern presidential governance. We know that speeches inform others of presidents’ policy preferences and allow them to meet public expectations; yet we do not know precisely what influences presidents’ tendencies to deliver them. This article argues that presidents consider the potential benefit or cost of delivering speeches. Deteriorating conditions in the political environment should cause a change in presidential behavi…
The Contemporary Presidency
Presidents have turned increasingly to local media to build support for their policy initiatives, as evidenced by President George W. Bush's recent and unprecedented efforts to reform Social Security. In this article, we examine local newspaper coverage of the president's reform tour and the success he had “going local.” We find that local newspapers tended to be positive, but mostly descriptive, in their coverage of the president's reform tour. …
Presidential Agenda-Setting of Traditional and Nontraditional News Media
The president's ability to influence the news agenda is central to the study of American politics. Although there is a large literature that examines presidential agenda-setting vis-à-vis traditional news sources, such as newspapers or broadcast television networks, there is little research that explores the effects of presidential agenda leadership of nontraditional media whether online or cable television. This study remedies this state of affa…
The Importance of Policy Scope to Presidential Success in Congress
The topic of presidential-congressional relations is well studied, with scholars identifying party control as a strong predictor of presidential success in Congress. Although the research recognizes the importance of policy variation to explaining political processes, few have examined its impact on presidential success in Congress. This article holds that policy scope is important to explaining presidential success in Congress in that different …
The Impact of Presidential Speeches on the Bureaucracy
Objective. Scholars have long held that presidents use various tools to control the federal bureaucracy. Yet, despite their importance to presidents in achieving their policy goals in Congress, few scholars have examined the impact of presidential speeches on bureaucratic activity. This article analyzes the impact of both positive and negative policy signals on civil rights policy in the bureaucracy. Method. I test this hypothesis using speeches …
The Immigration Rhetoric of Donald Trump
Donald Trump's rise to the presidency included frequent and divisive public remarks on immigration. He not only promised to secure the border by building a wall, but he also assured his supporters that Mexico would pay for it! Nevertheless, we know little about how frequently and in what ways President Trump spoke about immigration. Moreover, was Donald Trump's rhetoric mere bluster, or did it affect Congress and the public in measurable ways? To…
Presidential Rhetoric and Supreme Court Decisions
Despite the centrality of speeches to the American presidency, no research has specifically investigated the frequency of presidential public commentary about Supreme Court decisions. We do so and also examine why presidents discuss Supreme Court cases in their public comments from the Eisenhower to Obama administrations. Our empirical findings support our theoretical expectations in two primary ways. First, presidents speak most frequently after…
Presidential Position Taking and the Puzzle of Representation
A significant debate rages in the literature. Although going public success is a function of mass public support for a policy, presidents respond to partisan liberalism in their public rhetoric. This presents a puzzle: how do presidents reconcile their need to target policies that are popular with the mass public to go public successfully, when they respond primarily to partisan opinion in their speeches? Our comparison of the president's policy …
Presidential Speeches and the Stages of the Legislative Process
Presidents go public frequently to increase their success in Congress. Yet scholars know little about when presidents speak within the legislative process or why. If presidential speeches are indeed a source of power for presidents, then presidents are likely to use them throughout the legislative process, not speak only to affect final passage. We argue that presidents speak generally to meet broad electoral and political goals, but target speec…
Presidential and Media Leadership of Public Opinion on Iraq
Much research disputes the president's ability to lead public opinion and shows media to have influenced public opinion concerning the war in Iraq. We argue that although news tone is likely to have affected public support for the war, presidential rhetoric could be influential for two reasons. First, heightened presidential attention to the war increases the public's accessibility to the president's perspective on the war. Second, a survey quest…
The Presidency and Local Media
Presidents increasingly bypass the filter of national media and take their message on the road to appeal to local audiences through local news outlets. We examine local newspaper coverage of President George W. Bush in 2003. Presumably, the president would enjoy mostly positive coverage from local newspapers. Yet, we demonstrate substantial variation in local news coverage, with community support for the president being a primary predictor of whe…
Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality
Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional an…
The President on Spanish‐Language Television News
Objectives Different audience demographics and preferences should produce significant descriptive differences in the content of presidential news, with Noticiero Telemundo (Telemundo) newscasts offering more treatment of presidential news concerning issues pertinent to Latinos than NBC Nightly News (NBC). In addition, presidents can influence Spanish‐language news by targeting policy issues and locations most relevant to Latinos. Methods We offer…
On the Relationship between Public Opinion and Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
The authors explore whether the federal courts act as countermajoritarian institutions by investigating the influence of public mood on decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals from 1961 to 2002. The results indicate that public opinion affects courts of appeals decision making indirectly through judicial replacements and institutional constrains from Congress, but the authors fail to uncover evidence that courts of appeals judges respond di…
Local Newspaper Coverage of the Presidency
Scholarly research says much about national news coverage of the presidency. But there has been little exploration into local news coverage of the presidency, with much research focusing on presidential campaigns or a small subset of presidential news, his local visits. Based on a sample of 288 stories taken from 1995 of the Bill Clinton and 2003 of the George W. Bush administrations, I answer the following questions: What explains the amount of …
The Politics of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric
Although research on immigration politics is extensive, few scholars have systematically connected immigration politics to the president’s rhetoric over time. This is surprising since all modern presidents have referenced immigration in their public statements and presidents play a central role in setting the policy agenda. The primary purpose of this paper is to explain the president’s immigration rhetoric since 1953. Thus, we collect all presid…
Presidential Speeches Amid a More Centralized and Unified Congress
In his seminal work, Going Public, Samuel Kernell (1987 Kernell, Samuel. 1987. Going Public: New Strategies of Presidential Leadership. Washington, DC: CQ Press. [Google Scholar]) argued that changes in the congressional bargaining environment incentivized an increase in presidential speeches. Although subsequent research rejected that these changes increased speeches, Congress continues to evolve, having become more centralized and unified (by p…
Presidential Press Conferences over Time
Scholars have debated whether the president's public activities are a function of political and economic factors (presidency‐centered variables) or individual presidents and their administration's tendencies (president‐centered variables). This article examines one of the only quantitative studies that assesses the influence of these variables on presidential press conferences over time. I replicate this study ( Hager and Sullivan 1994 ) and find…
Presidential Press Conferences over Time
Scholars have debated whether the president's public activities are a function of political and economic factors (presidency-centered variables) or individual presidents and their administration's tendencies (president-centered variables). This article examines one of the only quantitative studies that assesses the influence of these variables on presidential press conferences over time. I replicate this study (Hager and Sullivan 1994) and find t…
Out of Touch
Out of Touch: The Presidency and Public Opinion. By Michael J. Towle. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 176p. $37.95. Public support is vital to the governing strategies of modern presidents. Although presidents, White House staff, and presidency scholars take this for granted during the “permanent campaign,” little is known about how administrations react to and interpret information about the public's support for the president.…
Presidential Influence Over the Systemic Agenda
One of the most widely accepted sources of presidential power is agenda setting. Being able to affect the media's agenda on key issues–influencing the systemic agenda and expanding the scope of conflict–has enormous consequences for the president's ability to govern effectively. Yet the literature to date has not conclusively determined the extent to which presidents consistently set agendas, especially over the media, because it has not explicit…
Presidential Signaling in a Market Economy
Presidential leadership of the economy is vital to presidential success. Although research supports some presidential influence over the economy, consensus holds that presidents do not affect it consistently. Nevertheless, scholars have not examined the impact of the president's public statements on the economy. From signaling and anticipative reactions theories, I develop expectations for when presidential signals should affect the marketplace. …
Of Little Faith
Presidents and the Economic Agenda
The president’s ability to influence the national policy agenda is an important component of presidential power. Although some maintain that presidents are favorably situated to set agendas, others demonstrate that the president’s agenda-setting skills vary considerably by policy area. What is more, scholars have yet to examine the impact presidents have had focusing attention on the economy, an issue of vital importance to their political succes…
The Politics of Presidential Agendas
Past research holds that if presidents are to increase their success in Congress, they must set the policy agenda in their favor. But what determines the propensity of presidents to propose or support different policies? Because presidents influence the agenda-setting stage of the policy process, presidents develop their yearly domestic policy agendas in anticipation of each policy’s success or failure in Congress. After all, presidents want to e…
The Contemporary Presidency
Presidents have turned increasingly to local media to build support for their policy initiatives, as evidenced by President George W. Bush's recent and unprecedented efforts to reform Social Security. In this article, we examine local newspaper coverage of the president's reform tour and the success he had “going local.” We find that local newspapers tended to be positive, but mostly descriptive, in their coverage of the president's reform tour. …
The Conditioning Effects of Policy Salience and Complexity on American Political Institutions
Years ago, Bill Gormley introduced public policy scholars to a new and innovative salience‐ complexity typology for regulatory policies. This typology not only helps scholars catalog numerous policies into distinct categories, but also helps explain variation in political processes. Specifically, different policies provide different incentives for political actors to be involved in policymaking. Salience encourages activity on the part of elected…
Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation
The topic of presidential success in Congress is central to the study of American politics. Yet existing research does not sufficiently assess the president's success at shaping the substance of legislation. To help remedy this deficiency, the authors measure the degree of presidential success on 191 important statutes from 1965 to 2000 and find that presidents typically accept significant concessions to ensure passage of legislation. Using facto…
Local Newspaper Coverage of the Presidency
Scholarly research says much about national news coverage of the presidency. But there has been little exploration into local news coverage of the presidency, with much research focusing on presidential campaigns or a small subset of presidential news, his local visits. Based on a sample of 288 stories taken from 1995 of the Bill Clinton and 2003 of the George W. Bush administrations, I answer the following questions: What explains the amount of …
The Presidency and Local Media
Presidents increasingly bypass the filter of national media and take their message on the road to appeal to local audiences through local news outlets. We examine local newspaper coverage of President George W. Bush in 2003. Presumably, the president would enjoy mostly positive coverage from local newspapers. Yet, we demonstrate substantial variation in local news coverage, with community support for the president being a primary predictor of whe…
The Impact of Presidential Speeches on the Bureaucracy
Objective. Scholars have long held that presidents use various tools to control the federal bureaucracy. Yet, despite their importance to presidents in achieving their policy goals in Congress, few scholars have examined the impact of presidential speeches on bureaucratic activity. This article analyzes the impact of both positive and negative policy signals on civil rights policy in the bureaucracy. Method. I test this hypothesis using speeches …
The Agenda-Setting Impact of Major Presidential TV Addresses
The ability to set the national agenda is an important power of the modern presidency. Policy-specific, nationally televised speeches provide presidents with the best rhetorical opportunity to set the national agenda; however, research on presidential agenda setting has not systematically explored their effects. Although the conventional understanding of presidential agenda setting suggests that presidents should be able to focus media attention …
The Importance of Policy Scope to Presidential Success in Congress
The topic of presidential-congressional relations is well studied, with scholars identifying party control as a strong predictor of presidential success in Congress. Although the research recognizes the importance of policy variation to explaining political processes, few have examined its impact on presidential success in Congress. This article holds that policy scope is important to explaining presidential success in Congress in that different …
How Policy Conditions the Impact of Presidential Speeches on Legislative Success
Objective. Although the impact of the president's rhetoric on public opinion remains unfound, it appears to increase the president's success in Congress. This article argues that instead of moving public opinion, presidential speeches act as informational cues for legislators and holds that the impact of the president's public speeches in Congress is conditional on the salience and complexity of the policy voted on by Congress. Method. I use prob…
The Tone of Local Presidential News Coverage
There is little research on the tone of local news coverage of the presidency, despite the public's preference for local rather than national news. I use theories of media politics, based primarily on the profit-seeker model of news coverage, to explore the impact of newspaper characteristics, audience preferences, and story characteristics on local newspaper coverage of the presidency. Based on a sample of 288 stories taken from the Bill Clinton…
On the Relationship between Public Opinion and Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
The authors explore whether the federal courts act as countermajoritarian institutions by investigating the influence of public mood on decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals from 1961 to 2002. The results indicate that public opinion affects courts of appeals decision making indirectly through judicial replacements and institutional constrains from Congress, but the authors fail to uncover evidence that courts of appeals judges respond di…
The Politics of Presidential Speeches
Speeches are vital to modern presidential governance. We know that speeches inform others of presidents’ policy preferences and allow them to meet public expectations; yet we do not know precisely what influences presidents’ tendencies to deliver them. This article argues that presidents consider the potential benefit or cost of delivering speeches. Deteriorating conditions in the political environment should cause a change in presidential behavi…
Presidential Speeches and the Stages of the Legislative Process
Presidents go public frequently to increase their success in Congress. Yet scholars know little about when presidents speak within the legislative process or why. If presidential speeches are indeed a source of power for presidents, then presidents are likely to use them throughout the legislative process, not speak only to affect final passage. We argue that presidents speak generally to meet broad electoral and political goals, but target speec…
Transforming America
Presidential and Media Leadership of Public Opinion on Iraq
Much research disputes the president's ability to lead public opinion and shows media to have influenced public opinion concerning the war in Iraq. We argue that although news tone is likely to have affected public support for the war, presidential rhetoric could be influential for two reasons. First, heightened presidential attention to the war increases the public's accessibility to the president's perspective on the war. Second, a survey quest…
Presidential Position Taking and the Puzzle of Representation
A significant debate rages in the literature. Although going public success is a function of mass public support for a policy, presidents respond to partisan liberalism in their public rhetoric. This presents a puzzle: how do presidents reconcile their need to target policies that are popular with the mass public to go public successfully, when they respond primarily to partisan opinion in their speeches? Our comparison of the president's policy …
The Presidential Road Show
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