Staying on the democratic script? A deep learning analysis of the speechmaking of U.S. presidents
Amnon Cavari,
Akos Mate,
Miklós Sebők
Abstract:Dynamic agenda representation assumes a linkage between the policy emphases prescribed by various democratic inputs (electoral promises and public opinion polls) and policy agendas ranging from the media to executive orders. An extrapolation of this idea would propose that, in the U.S. context, policy emphasis in major programmatic messages such as State of the Union addresses would be followed by the president's day‐to‐day communication. We investigate this congruence with a new database of presidential speec… Show more
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