The Policy Agendas of the President and the Mass Public: A Research Validation and Extension

Hill, Kim

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“…For instance, Cohen (1995) and Hill (1998) find that the president can direct public attention to civil rights issues, while Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake (2004) arrive at similar findings in their analysis of the president's impact on media attention from 1950-1998. Additionally, Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake (2004) argue that the influence in this area flows both ways between the president and the media.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…As Peake (2001, 84) notes, "In order to be successful, presidents must pick and choose their issues carefully, even in foreign policy." In addition to Peake (2001), Hill's (1998) study revealed a reciprocal relationship between the president and the public in this area. While foreign policy is not examined in this study, the evidence suggests the relationship between the president and public may be sensitive to the specific issues investigated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Cohen's original work (1995), and the replications by Hill (1998) and Young and Perkins (2005), the president's rhetorical attention to different policy areas in the SUA served as the president's agenda. Since this national speech was typically viewed by scholars and the Washington community as the vehicle for the president's annual agenda (Light 1991), it represents a good approximation of the president's priorities.…”

Section: Measuring the President's Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 There is some evidence that a reciprocal relationship exists in foreign and economic policy (Hill 1998), but the evidence in domestic policy only points to a one-way path from the president to the public (Cohen 1995;Hill 1998). Further analysis may extend the reciprocal nature of the president-public link to the domestic realm.…”

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“…However, a less settled question remains over which institution, Congress or the president, controls the agenda and when. To address this, scholars have dedicated their efforts to disentangling the relationships between the agendas of the president, Congress, the media, and the public (Cohen 1995;Edwards and Barrett 2000;Edwards and Woods 1999;Eshbaugh-Soha andPeake 2004, 2005;Flemming, Wood, and Bohte 1999;Grusczynski 2004;Hill 1998;Young and Perkins 2005). The assumption behind this work is that the institution that can influence the agendas of others is likely to control the legislative agenda, which will, in turn, translate into a higher level of policy success.…”

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The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

Cummins¹

2007

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Initial research on presidential agenda-setting suggested the president can focus the public’s attention on certain policy issues, while subsequent research has concluded the president may be more limited in his agenda-setting capacity and that a reciprocal relationship may exist between the president and the public. The purpose of this paper is to address this research in three ways. First, I update and extend the time period studied in the earlier research, 1953-1989, by including an additional 11 years of data. Second, I explore three substantive policy areas within domestic policy, crime, education, and health and social welfare, which were previously not examined, to determine the reciprocal nature of the relationship and whether the president’s influence has diminished. Third, I investigate a factor in presidential agenda setting that has heretofore been ignored in the literature— divided government. Time series analysis of annual data reveal that a reciprocal relationship exists, the president has significant influence over the public agenda in all three areas, and that divided government makes the president’s agenda-setting job more difficult.

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The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior

Krosnick

Visser

Harder³

2010

Handbook of Social Psychology

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A. life, liberty, and property B. honor, liberty, and peace C. liberty, health, and community D. life, respect, and equal protection E. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Educational testing research documents that performance on such items hinges not only on the respondent ' s familiarity with the question ' s subject matter but on how difficult the " distractor " response options are (e.g., Kline, 1986). For anyone who majored in American Politics in college, reading options A -D in this context might induce a smile. The distractors are all structurally similar to the right answer (naming three " rights " ), and they are all plausible. But for people who have heard about the Declaration of Independence only very occasionally in school and have never read it, this might be a much tougher question.What if the question were asked this way instead:Which of the following are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?A. to own a boat, to laugh occasionally, and to have a good meal daily B. to have a pet, to sleep in a bed every night, and to breathe air daily C. to live, to learn, and to love D. to vacation in a country away from home, to chop vegetables with a knife, and to get regular haircuts E. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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2015

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The Policy Agendas of the President and the Mass Public: A Research Validation and Extension

Cited by 97 publications

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The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

The President’s Domestic Agenda, Divided Government, and the Relationship to the Public Agenda

The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior

The Great Communicator

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