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Sitting With Oprah, Dancing With Ellen: Presidents, Daytime Television, And Soft News, José Villalobos Nov 2012

Sitting With Oprah, Dancing With Ellen: Presidents, Daytime Television, And Soft News, José Villalobos

Departmental Papers (PS)

On July 29, 2010, President Barack Obama took to the air on "The View" to talk politics, policy, and family. Pundits billed the visit as the first time a sitting U.S. president appeared in a daytime television program. The telecast drew about 6.7 million viewers, the highest rating ever for the show, and garnered the largest number of women viewers in 17 months. However, whether and to what extent Obama succeeded in getting his message out and endearing himself to female voters remains an open question that merits further scholarly inquiry. In this chapter, I put Obama’s visit to "The …


The Prospector, October 30, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 30, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Basketball Special


The Prospector, October 23, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 23, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: They Are Among Us


The Prospector, October 16, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 16, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Homecoming 2012


The Prospector, October 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Transformation Concerns Students with Disabilities


The Prospector, October 9, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 9, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Vice Presidential Debate Expected to Increase Viewership


The Prospector, October 4, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 4, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Political Groups Respond to Presidential Debate


The Prospector, October 2, 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

The Prospector, October 2, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Enrollment Skyrockets


Minero Magazine, Volume Xv, Fall 2012, Utep Student Publications Oct 2012

Minero Magazine, Volume Xv, Fall 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Cover Story: When the Majority Becomes the Minority


Centennial Newsletter, Utep 2014 Commission Oct 2012

Centennial Newsletter, Utep 2014 Commission

UTEP 2014 Commission

Monthly e-newsletter of the UTEP 2014 Commission.


The Prospector, September 27, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 27, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: HOOAH!: ROTC Begins Fundraiser for Homeless Vets


The Prospector, September 25, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 25, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Student Organizations Promote Political Awareness


The Prospector, September 18, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 18, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Looking for a Job


The Prospector, September 13, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 13, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: 90th Meeting Battle of Interstate 10


The Prospector, September 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Becoming Blood Brothers


The Prospector, September 6, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 6, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Young Voters Check Out


The Prospector, September 4, 2012, Utep Student Publications Sep 2012

The Prospector, September 4, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Miners Gamble and Lose to the Sooners


Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari Sep 2012

Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari

Selected Works Temporary Series

In this study, we examine the linkage between presidential policy proposal messages and legislative success. Employing a dataset on presidential legislative proposals that covers the years 1949-2010, we find that politics matters less than policy. Purely political messages that reference the electoral logic of mandates or appeal to a sense of bipartisanship appear to have no impact on presidential legislative success, nor does policy signaling, though highlighting the role of agency-based policy experts in crafting legislation does. From these results, we conclude that although the way presidents communicate their messages to Congress represents an important component of presidential-legislative relations, it …


The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos Sep 2012

The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos

Selected Works Temporary Series

Presidential policy czars have been an important and powerful component of President Barack Obama’s approach to management and leadership in the first part of his time in office. By using czars, the President has been able to demonstrate the importance of policy issues, both to his own agenda and to the broader political system. In this chapter, we find that performance outcomes for these czars have been a mixed bag, with as many stories of success to report as tales of frustration and failure. As such, we posit that the cost of czars, in political and organizational terms, has outweighed …


Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari Sep 2012

Politics Or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters To Presidential Leadership Of Congress, José Villalobos, Justin Vaughn, Julia Azari

Departmental Papers (PS)

In this study, we examine the linkage between presidential policy proposal messages and legislative success. Employing a dataset on presidential legislative proposals that covers the years 1949-2010, we find that politics matters less than policy. Purely political messages that reference the electoral logic of mandates or appeal to a sense of bipartisanship appear to have no impact on presidential legislative success, nor does policy signaling, though highlighting the role of agency-based policy experts in crafting legislation does. From these results, we conclude that although the way presidents communicate their messages to Congress represents an important component of presidential-legislative relations, it …


The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos Sep 2012

The Policy Czar Debate, Justin Vaughn, José Villalobos

Departmental Papers (PS)

Presidential policy czars have been an important and powerful component of President Barack Obama’s approach to management and leadership in the first part of his time in office. By using czars, the President has been able to demonstrate the importance of policy issues, both to his own agenda and to the broader political system. In this chapter, we find that performance outcomes for these czars have been a mixed bag, with as many stories of success to report as tales of frustration and failure. As such, we posit that the cost of czars, in political and organizational terms, has outweighed …


The Prospector, August 28, 2012, Utep Student Publications Aug 2012

The Prospector, August 28, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Class is in Session: UTEP vs. OU


The Prospector, July 25, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jul 2012

The Prospector, July 25, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Final Plans Unveiled


The Prospector, July 18, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jul 2012

The Prospector, July 18, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Violence Declined in Juárez: U. S. Travel Warning Still in Place


The Prospector, July 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jul 2012

The Prospector, July 11, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Candidates Prepare for Battle: Local Politicians Campaign for Congressional Seat


Prosody-Based Query-By-Example Spoken Utterance Retrieval, Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward Jul 2012

Prosody-Based Query-By-Example Spoken Utterance Retrieval, Steven D. Werner, Nigel G. Ward

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Summer 2012

Current spoken dialogue retrieval systems are almost entirely lexically based, using automatic transcription by imperfect speech recognition technology. Once audio is reduced to text, little more than existing text search methods are used to retrieve results. However, spoken dialogue contains rich latent prosodic information about dialogue activities - such as agreeing, arguing, deciding, planning, storytelling, showing surprise - and this extra information can often be relevant to the searchers aims. Searching for similar speech acts rather then similar words enables similar contextual results, returning points where the speaker had the same sentiment during a topic. Previous research yielded 76 dimensions …


Centennial Newsletter, Utep 2014 Commission Jul 2012

Centennial Newsletter, Utep 2014 Commission

UTEP 2014 Commission

Monthly e-newsletter of the UTEP 2014 Commission.


The Prospector, June 27, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jun 2012

The Prospector, June 27, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Defining the Future


The Prospector, June 20, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jun 2012

The Prospector, June 20, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Dreamers Get A Second Chance


The Prospector, June 13, 2012, Utep Student Publications Jun 2012

The Prospector, June 13, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Alcohol Ban Still Looms Over Title Bout