PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL, CRIME VICTIMIZATION, AND FEELINGS OF INSECURITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Violence and Crime in Latin America

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

Consensus and Volatility in Presidential Approval

One of the central themes in research, teaching, and popular commentary about American politics is the power of the Presidency. This is no surprise, since American domestic politics and policymaking, and even many decisions on the world stage, rotate about the axis of the U.S. president. Presidential approval plays a particularly critical role in presidential power, as ample studies have demons...

Flibanserin Approval: Facts or Feelings?

On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first in class multifunctional serotonin agonist and antagonist medication, flibanserin, for the treatment of generalized acquired hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in premenopausal women. This approval was surrounded by political posturing that has resulted in naysayers attacking the science based on their feelin...

Does Presidential Rhetoric Matter? Priming and Presidential Approval

The public’s approval of the president plays a critical role in determining the president’s power and policy-making success. Scholars and pundits have thus devoted a large amount of attention to explaining the dynamics of presidential approval. Surprisingly, this work has overlooked one of the more important potential forces behind approval—that is, what the president himself says. In this arti...

Crisis and Rapid Re-equilibration: The Consequences of Presidential Challenge and Failure In Latin America