Psychological Pain and the Presidency: The Case of Calvin Coolidge

Gilbert, Robert E.

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“…Interestingly, Calvin Coolidge's 1925 speech is the exception. 15 Coolidge, widely recognized as a mediocre president (see Gilbert 1988), is tied to James Monroe in this network based on the content overlap of Coolidge's address with Monroe's 1821 second inaugural, which is somewhat vexing because of the century that separates the two speeches.…”

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Social Currents

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Digital text has revolutionized how we consume and produce information, and also provides seemingly limitless sources of data from Twitter feeds to online historical archives. Such new data challenge traditional boundaries between quantitative and qualitative research, and exciting horizons have emerged. New analytic approaches are warranted, however, given the typically unstructured, respondent-generated format of such data. In this article, I examine how sociologists have handled text data prior to digitization. Building on recent advancements in computational linguistics and computational social science, I then offer a network-based model and approach for analyzing similarities and locating emergent, general themes in digitized text. I provide a case in point by analyzing the United States’ presidential inaugural addresses. This analysis illustrates how sociologists can take advantage of both the breadth of new digital sources of data and the richness that such qualitative material provides. Indeed, the digitization of texts represents a possible and stimulating sea change in how we tell socio-cultural and historical stories. The greatest potential in these regards rests at the nexus of new computational methods and in-depth, qualitative strategies.

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“…He was as much a failure as president as he had earlier been a success. He had lost his interest and his capacity to deal with the office (Gilbert, 1988;Coolidge, 1929;Fuess, 1940;McCoy, 1967).…”

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“…By contrast, we want to examine how leaders deal with the ongoing threats and challengesthe continual pressure on one's time, the often severe consequences for what would be a minor error in other circumstances, the constant pulling and tugging from conflicting interests-of day-to-day political life. The stress-hardy leader will likely be a crisis-hardy one (see Holsti, 1976;Holsti and George, 1975; and the most recent contribution and summary, Post, 1991; see Gilbert, 1992 for an excellent analysis of stress and the U.S. presidency).…”

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Stress and Political Leadership

Robins

Dorn

1993

Polit. life sci.

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The literature on stress and political leadership typically views such potential stressors as time-pressure, severe consequences for bad decisions, inadequate information, and conflicting demands as negative influences on political performance. We know, however, that many politicians thrive on or even require such circumstances. Drawing on medical, historical, psychiatric, psychological, and political science literature, this essay proposes that there are at least three major types of leaders in regard to potential stressors: sturdy warriors (who cope with or who even enjoy and are helped by events commonly reacted to by others as stressors), battle-hungry warriors (who are psychologically drawn to potential stressors and “cannot function,” well or badly, without them), and frail warriors (who are unable to cope with stressors). Subcategories, including psychological and political dynamics, are provided.

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Military Interventions in the Coolidge Administration

Zeman¹

2014

A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover

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Psychological Pain and the Presidency: The Case of Calvin Coolidge

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

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From Words to Networks and Back

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