The Polls: Presidential Traits and Job Approval: Some Aggregate-Level Evidence.
A study was conducted to explore the political effects of public perceptions of Bill Clinton's personal characteristics in order to ascertain whether they affect the public's evaluations of presidential job performance. Findings indicated that they do and so lend aggregate-level support to existing...
| Published in: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 437 - 449 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
June 2004
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| Summary: | A study was conducted to explore the political effects of public perceptions of Bill Clinton's personal characteristics in order to ascertain whether they affect the public's evaluations of presidential job performance. Findings indicated that they do and so lend aggregate-level support to existing individual-level proof of the importance of character assessments. Furthermore, it was argued that the detection of a link between character perceptions and job approval in the aggregate time series context helped answer questions previous analyses leave unresolved, with significant implications for the understanding of presidential approval and presidential politics more generally. |
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