TY - JOUR
AU1 - Stimson, James, A.
AB - Abstract The approval accorded to Presidents by the American public is found to follow a cyclical pattern over time. All Presidents begin their terms with great popularity, experience parabolic declines, steadily lose popular support for about three years, and then recover some at the ends of their terms. These distinctive cycles, it is argued, reflect regular expectation/disillusionment cycles among the less well-informed segments of the public and are tied to the four-year election calendar. The extraordinary fit of parabolic curves to actual presidential approval leads to the suspicion that presidential approval may be almost wholly independent of the President's behavior in office, a function largely of inevitable forces associated with time. This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes * " This study is based in large part on data provided by John E. Mueller. Edward G. Carmines, John C. Lane, Caroline LeGette, and Richard A. Zeller made a wide variety of substantial contributions to the research project reported here. © 1976, the American Association for Public Opinion Research
TI - Public Support for American PresidentsA Cyclical Model
JF - Public Opinion Quarterly
DO - 10.1086/268264
DA - 1976-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/public-support-for-american-presidentsa-cyclical-model-i6ZX5lUsX9
SP - 1
VL - 40
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -