Agenda Setting From The Oval Office: An Experimental Examination Of Presidential Influence Over The Public Agenda,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
Agenda Setting From The Oval Office: An Experimental Examination Of Presidential Influence Over The Public Agenda, José Villalobos, Cigdem Sirin
Selected Works Temporary Series
This study employs an experimental approach to isolate and directly test the extent to which presidents can affect public perceptions of issue importance and support for policy action, taking into consideration key factors that condition such effects. Our findings provide new empirical evidence that presidents can, in fact, positively influence public opinion through agenda setting, particularly by increasing the perceptual importance of low salience foreign policy issues. However, the results also indicate that such positive effects do not translate into public support for policy action; instead, presidential appeals actually decrease support. Last, our study offers new evidence that employing bipartisan …
James A. Garfield: 20th President Of The United States,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
James A. Garfield: 20th President Of The United States, José Villalobos
Selected Works Temporary Series
President James A. Garfield served for only 200 days before an assassin’s bullets ended his unlikely rise to power. Garfield was the last “log cabin” president and a life-long Republican, both in the tradition of his predecessor, Ulysses Grant. In his lifetime, he served honorably as educator, general, and politician. His surprising nomination for president in 1880 earned him the nickname of the “Dark Horse” candidate, and his victory in the general election sealed his place in history as a U.S. president. His rise to power and tragic death highlight an important episode of the Gilded Age. Although Garfield’s time …
Agenda Setting From The Oval Office: An Experimental Examination Of Presidential Influence Over The Public Agenda,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
Agenda Setting From The Oval Office: An Experimental Examination Of Presidential Influence Over The Public Agenda, José Villalobos, Cigdem Sirin
Departmental Papers (PS)
This study employs an experimental approach to isolate and directly test the extent to which presidents can affect public perceptions of issue importance and support for policy action, taking into consideration key factors that condition such effects. Our findings provide new empirical evidence that presidents can, in fact, positively influence public opinion through agenda setting, particularly by increasing the perceptual importance of low salience foreign policy issues. However, the results also indicate that such positive effects do not translate into public support for policy action; instead, presidential appeals actually decrease support. Last, our study offers new evidence that employing bipartisan …
James A. Garfield: 20th President Of The United States,
2012
University of Texas at El Paso
James A. Garfield: 20th President Of The United States, José Villalobos
Departmental Papers (PS)
President James A. Garfield served for only 200 days before an assassin’s bullets ended his unlikely rise to power. Garfield was the last “log cabin” president and a life-long Republican, both in the tradition of his predecessor, Ulysses Grant. In his lifetime, he served honorably as educator, general, and politician. His surprising nomination for president in 1880 earned him the nickname of the “Dark Horse” candidate, and his victory in the general election sealed his place in history as a U.S. president. His rise to power and tragic death highlight an important episode of the Gilded Age. Although Garfield’s time …
Modern Political Marketing: An Analysis Of Tactics, And The Changing Role Of The Media,
2012
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Modern Political Marketing: An Analysis Of Tactics, And The Changing Role Of The Media, Jill Donovan
Journalism
Political marketing is evolving. Campaigns now rely on political marketing for success in elections, without the marketing tactics they employ; their messaging would not be distributed to the voting public. In many of the political marketing models and theories, however, there is a massive omission; the role of traditional media as an overwhelmingly influential factor over the voting public, which can misconstrue and negatively impact the message of the candidate. This study analyses classical marketing tactics a political marketer uses, and examines the changing environment of traditional media with the rise of social networking.
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 372. Letter, 26 August 1912, of U.S. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, Washington, D.C., to John M. Bogart, New York City, declining an invitation to a dinner honoring Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson because of matters of importance requiring his return to Alabama.
Catholic Claims Stretch The First Amendment,
2012
University of Richmond
Catholic Claims Stretch The First Amendment, Ellis M. West
Political Science Faculty Publications
The Obama administration recently issued a regulation requiring all employers except religious organizations to include contraceptives in their employees' health insurance. The Catholic Church and various politicians have accused the administration of violating the church's religious freedom. Although the administration has modified its original regulation, it continues to be attacked for "waging war" on religious freedom.
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 367. Letter to Miss Elizabeth N. Duncan, Denver, Colorado, concerning the availability of tickets to the Democratic Convention. Urey Woodson was Secretary of the Democratic National Committee.
"The Blessings And Burdens Of Liberty": Keynote Address, Memorial Day Program, St. Cloud Va Medical Center, May 25, 2009,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
"The Blessings And Burdens Of Liberty": Keynote Address, Memorial Day Program, St. Cloud Va Medical Center, May 25, 2009, James C. Fischer
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
What Kind Of Constitution? James Madison, John C. Calhoun, And The Problem Of Majority Rule: Constitution Day Address To The University Of South Carolina, September 17, 2009,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
What Kind Of Constitution? James Madison, John C. Calhoun, And The Problem Of Majority Rule: Constitution Day Address To The University Of South Carolina, September 17, 2009, James H. Read
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
News Coverage Of New Presidents In The New York Times, 1981-2009,
2012
University of Mary Washington
News Coverage Of New Presidents In The New York Times, 1981-2009, Stephen J. Farnsworth, S Robert Lichter
Political Science & International Affairs Articles
Content analysis of front-page The New York Times stories during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than that received during the first year of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Overall, the Obama findings reveal a media honeymoon in that influential newspaper, a sharp contrast from first-year coverage of other presidents during the modern era of a more combative press. The positive policy coverage Obama received in the Times was also significantly more positive than on evening newscasts of network television and on Fox …
The Mormon Plot That Wasn't,
2012
William & Mary Law School
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 246. Campaign letter, 25 July 1913, written by F. Youree Patterson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his candidacy for the Warren County Clerk’s office in the primary election on the dry ticket.
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 239. Letter written by Alben Barkley, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, to J. Marion Robertson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing his gratitude for Robertson’s work in Warren County during the recent primary election.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Franklin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.
Inaugurations Past And Present ... From George Washington To Barack Obama,
2012
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Inaugurations Past And Present ... From George Washington To Barack Obama, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Elections/Voting
Photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
The Staffing Of Presidential Assistants: Their Effect On Presidential Success In The House Of Representatives,
2012
Gettysburg College
The Staffing Of Presidential Assistants: Their Effect On Presidential Success In The House Of Representatives, Nicholas R. Jesteadt
Gettysburg Economic Review
This paper examines the Congressional success of United States Presidents based on the reported Congressional Quarterly Presidential Box Scores. Their individual success is examined as an effect of the senior staff member a President chooses and whether they are chosen from the campaign, personal experience, or previous administrations. It is important for a President to consider the origins of these staffers as these Assistants to the President act as the body of the President’s administration. The econometric analysis presented reveals several interesting results. First, the predominance of a President to choose staff members from his campaign shows no significant impact …
Conservative Media And Political Socialization: Immigration, Gay Marriage, And Abortion As Presented By Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, And Cnn,
2012
Marshall University
Conservative Media And Political Socialization: Immigration, Gay Marriage, And Abortion As Presented By Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, And Cnn, Jeff Mckay
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This study addresses the political socialization of politically conservative individuals and how political ideologies seem to coalesce among individuals from various socioeconomic backgrounds. The main issue that this study aims to tackle is the impact of conservative media on the political socialization of conservative individuals and how media as an agent of socialization might influence them to support ideas that are not to their benefit economically. For instance, conservative individuals from various backgrounds wholeheartedly support the same free market principles. However, the negative effect that capitalism has had on the liberty of middle and lower class citizens of the United …
Open Secret: Why The Supreme Court Has Nothing To Fear From The Internet,
2012
Syracuse University
Open Secret: Why The Supreme Court Has Nothing To Fear From The Internet, Keith J. Bybee
Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University
The United States Supreme Court has an uneasy relationship with openness: it complies with some calls for transparency, drags its feet in response to others, and sometimes simply refuses to go along. I argue that the Court’s position is understandable given that the internet age of fluid information and openness has often been heralded in terms that are antithetical to the Court’s operations. Even so, I also argue the Court actually has little to fear from greater transparency. The understanding of the Court with the greatest delegitimizing potential is the understanding that the justices render decisions on the basis of …
