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War, Presidents and Public Opinion John E. Mueller
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This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 1975-11-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public opinion.read more
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The Mexican War on Drugs: Crime and the Limits of Government Persuasion
TL;DR: The authors argue that crime victimization inures individuals from pro-government messages and that negative outlooks become self-fulfilling prophecies: Citizens perceive that government policy is failing, which reduces societal support for the incumbent; less societal support weakens the government's ability to effectively fight crime, and the likelihood of government success further decreases.
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Presidential Support and the Political Use of Presidential Capital
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the public holds widely shared domestic and international goals and responds to a number of external cues provided by the president and the media in its evaluation of presidential policies, and link together the theoretical assumptions, to examine the influence of varying levels of support among the Congress and the public, and the president's own personal power goals on the type, quantity and the quality of activities the president will choose.
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Like Father, Like Son: Testing the Bush I-Bush II Comparison Predictions
TL;DR: Carpenter et al. as discussed by the authors showed that perceptions of foreign policy leadership appear to be more important in predicting approval for both presidencies than economic performance, and even though the combination of economic and foreign approval ratings appear to drive Bush II's performance ratings overall, these played a rather insignificant role for Bush I.
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The Mexican War on Drugs: Crime and the Limits of Government Persuasion
TL;DR: The authors argue that crime victimization inures individuals from pro-government messages and that negative outlooks become self-fulfilling prophecies: Citizens perceive that government policy is failing, which reduces societal support for the incumbent; less societal support weakens the government's ability to effectively fight crime, and the likelihood of government success further decreases.
Dissertation
Presidential Support and the Political Use of Presidential Capital
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the public holds widely shared domestic and international goals and responds to a number of external cues provided by the president and the media in its evaluation of presidential policies, and link together the theoretical assumptions, to examine the influence of varying levels of support among the Congress and the public, and the president's own personal power goals on the type, quantity and the quality of activities the president will choose.
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Like Father, Like Son: Testing the Bush I-Bush II Comparison Predictions
TL;DR: Carpenter et al. as discussed by the authors showed that perceptions of foreign policy leadership appear to be more important in predicting approval for both presidencies than economic performance, and even though the combination of economic and foreign approval ratings appear to drive Bush II's performance ratings overall, these played a rather insignificant role for Bush I.