The American Council on Education (ACE) study on the academic presidency reported that half of four-year college and university presidential searches finalized in 2001 utilized the services of an executive search consultant (Corrigan, 2002). This figure is up from 16 percent for searches conducted prior to 1985 (Ross & Green, 2000; Corrigan, 2002), and represents a continued expansion of the ex...

This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilisticvoting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign...

This paper1 examines the debate over the categorization of the Russian political system as “semi-presidential” (as many, especially comparativists, argue) or “super-presidential” (as perhaps the majority of Russian area experts argue). To approach a resolution of this debate, the article focuses on the interpretation of the relevant articles in the Russian constitution, presents practical compa...

Although, there exists numerous literature on the procedure for forecasting or predicting election results, in Ghana only opinion poll strategies have been used. To fill this gap, the paper develops Markov chain models for forecasting the 2016 presidential election results at the Regional, Zonal (i.e. Savannah, Coastal and Forest) and the National levels using past presidential election results...

Augmentals, as a type of verbal rule, have been used in political speeches either for establishing beneficial cultural values the populace (Leigland, 2005) or publicizing points view to exert control on public opinion through propaganda (Rakos, 1993). The current study conducted functional content analysis two presidential about climate change and global warming regarding whether United States ...