Here we examined the effect of mixed-gender televised political debates on the candidates' multimodal gender communicative accountability structure. The 2016 election campaign in the United States introduced for the first time a new factor into the presidential political contest: gender. This study is ...
We are post-mid-terms and gearing up for another presidential race. Likely, you can’t go five minutes without being caught up in the hoopla of politics. When you turn on the TV, it seems that every other commercial is about a political candidate vying for your vote. When you click ove...
These factors explain why politicians may operate, to borrow an expression from US presidential politics, as though they are in a permanent campaign (Kelly, 1993). All of these factors bear on ministerial prioritisation. So those seeking to influence ministers must start from the proposition that ...
On this basis, it is worth considering how the two sides could arrive at a clearer understanding of what strategic stability is and does as a first step toward curbing those technologies and behaviors both agree are destabilizing. With this goal in mind, this article outlines an approach to ...
However, despite the prevalence of these interbranch conflicts, relatively few studies have examined the conditions under which rulers are more likely to erode judicial independence. Some scholars claim that governments curtail judicial independence when executive power is highly centralized (Helmke, 2010)...
“There was none when Teller wrote his wildly optimistic assessments to top presidential advisers four and three years ago. And there is none now.” A summary of the GAO investigation released by Rep. Brown has since supported Woodruff’s charge that he was prevented from amplifying the Teller...
Thefirst political polldates back to the Presidential election of 1824. Probability and statistical inference for other applications ishundreds of years olderthan that. The science behind extrapolating from a sample representative of a population to the population itself is well established. ...
Congress is not doing its job, and the vacuum that its dereliction has created is encouraging presidential and judicial overreach. Congress’s weakness is our deepest constitutional problem, because it is not a function of one man’s whims and won’t pass with one administration’s term. It ...
LOOKING FOR THE KNOCKOUT PUNCH When it comes to presidential debates, what we are really hoping to see is a paralyzing one-liner or a major blunderAndrew Herrmann
When Symbolic Racism Meets Political Reality: Racial Attitudes, Barack Obama and the 2008 Presidential DebatesGully, DarinMcKinney, Mitchell