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- Title
The Public Presidency, Personal Approval Ratings, and Policy Making.
- Authors
CANES‐WRONE, BRANDICE
- Abstract
In this article, I argue that personal popularity is less essential to how a president's public activities affect policy making than commonly presumed, and provide two types of evidence for this argument. First, I show that unpopular as well as popular presidents can increase their prospects for legislative success by appealing to the public. Second, I demonstrate that on prominent issues, unpopular presidents are no more likely than popular ones to take positions favored by mass opinion. After relating these findings to a perspective of the public presidency that differs from the conventional wisdom, I discuss enduring questions concerning the topic.
- Subjects
HEADS of state; PRESIDENTS; EXECUTIVE power; FEDERAL government; PUBLIC relations; POPULARITY; POLITICAL leadership; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2004, Vol 34, Issue 3, p477
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00208.x