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Yes, Ronald Reagan's Rhetoric Was Unique-But Statistically, How Unique?

We use automated textual analysis to compare Ronald Reagan's rhetoric with that of presidents Woodrow Wilson through Barack Obama, using their State of the Union speeches. We are able to assign statistical significance to the thematic content, and to depict spatially the shifting dimensionality in t...

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Published in:Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 482 - 514
Main Authors: SCHONHARDT‐BAILEY, CHERYL, YAGER, EDWARD, LAHLOU, SAADI
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2012
Subjects:
United States
Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004
Civil religion
History
Rhetoric & politics
State of the Union messages
Presidential messages of United States Presidents
United States politics & government, 1981-1989
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost