Public attitudes toward the First Lady.
The writer examines public attitudes toward the first lady. He notes that there has been a spectacular expansion in public and poll interest in the first lady as a result of Hillary Clinton's active public, political, and policy presence. He investigates “job approval” poll data on the first lady...
| Publicado en: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 374 - 382 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
June 2000
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| Sumario: | The writer examines public attitudes toward the first lady. He notes that there has been a spectacular expansion in public and poll interest in the first lady as a result of Hillary Clinton's active public, political, and policy presence. He investigates “job approval” poll data on the first lady and President Clinton to discover if an active first lady has consequences for public evaluations of the president. He finds that perhaps the first lady is not particularly a political asset nor liability to the president and that the president may not overly affect public attitudes toward the first lady. His findings suggest it is more likely that the president's public standing casts a shadow on the first lady than the other way around. He concludes by suggesting that further investigation is required to consider these conjectures. |
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