The advantage of the EOS method over retrospective surveys is that it provides real-time evaluations of presidential leadership over multiple issue areas. We make leadership in the areas of civil rights policy and race relations the key component of our ranking of the modern presidents. Finally, ...
, c-span's 2021 presidential historians survey and the presidential greatness survey conducted by professors at the university of houston and coastal carolina university in 2024. those narrowly missing the cut were presidents benjamin harrison , who ranked 11th-worst, as well as george w. bush and...
It also suggests that experts of all political stripes are influenced by the milieu in which their evaluation takes place. In the end, while no claim is made that the popular expert surveys used in this study provide a true measure of presidential greatness, it is argued that ranking polls ...