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...

First, I thank Mary-Claire for the wonderful introduction. As Mary-Claire noted, I moved here in 1967, when the Red Sox clinched the pennant for the first time after a long drought and then went on to play the St. Louis Cardinals, as they do again this year. I became a Red Sox fan in 1967 and survived the disappointments of 1975 and 1986, but eventually in 2004 they did win, and so I’m excited ...

The Presidential Address

The purpose of the study is to characterize discursive strategies and tactics Ukraineʼs President V. Zelenskyy. Zelenskyyʼs political discourse mainly determined by strategy for increase theatricality. used create a positive mental space around oneself oneʼs force, so it implemented through analysis-“plus”, which involves analyzing situation without explicit approval contribution, with gratitud...

In this bibliographic overview, we aim to compile and review the academic literature on presidential discourse of three successive administrations under Néstor Kirchner Cristina Fernández, spanning years between 2003 2015. doing this, attempt systematize group production four thematic headings or categories with varying objects study. The first category is made up speech enunciative studies, wh...

Diversity is crucial to reducing the word error rate (WER) when fusing multiple automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We present an empirical analysis linking diversity and fusion performance. We transcribed speech from the first 2012 US Presidential debate using multiple ASR systems trained with the Kaldi toolkit. We used the N-best ROVER algorithm to perform hypothesis fusion and measur...

This paper focuses on the process of coalition formation in presidential systems. It shows that party positions and institutions influence the formation of government coalitions. We argue that presidents will tend to include parties positioned close to their policy positions in their cabinets, and will be more inclined to do it when relative institutional authority is more advantageous to congr...

The recent failures of traditional poll models, like the predictions in United Kingdom with the Brexit, or in United States presidential election with the victory of Donald Trump, have been noteworthy. With the decline of traditional poll models and the growth of the social networks, automatic tools are gaining popularity to make predictions in this context. In this paper we present our approxi...