This paper provides original evidence from institutional investors that political uncertainty during presidential elections greatly affects investment. Using U.S. institutional ownership data from 1981 to 2010, we find that institutions significantly reduce their holdings of common stock by 0.76 to 2.1 percentage points during election years. More specifically, institutions tend to sell large p...

This paper has the purpose to analyze most recent economic and political changes in the Mexican States, which show a clear transitional tendency from an entrepreneurial state toward a state of entrepreneurs through the following stages: The PRI-presidential Mexican Entrepreneurial State with an emphasis in the welfare state model, followed by a period marked by the transition of the Mexican Sta...

Formulas to predict presidential greatness on the Maranell index were constructed for 29 presidents from Washington to L. Johnson. When a Zeitgeist variable, derived from the historian A. M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s (1986) work on the public purpose-private interest cycle of American political history, served as the initial predictor and stepwise selection was made from a personological pool and then...

To evaluate how perceptions of presidential debates are structured by the media, we describe a three-wave field experiment in which subjects were incentivized to watch portions of a presidential debate and post-debate television coverage. We find that post-debate coverage has strong effects on candidate evaluations, with subjects’ perceptions moving in the direction of the ideological slant of ...

The 2004 presidential election led to considerable discussion about whether moral values motivated people to vote, and if so, whether it led to a conservative electoral advantage. The results of two studies—one conducted in the context of the 2000 presidential election, the other in the context of the 2004 presidential election—indicated that stronger moral convictions associated with candidate...

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During the last presidential election in the United States, Twitter drew a lot of attention. This is because many leading persons and organizations, such as U.S. president Donald J. Trump, showed a strong affection to this medium. In this work we neglect the political contents and opinions shared on Twitter and focus on the question: Can we determine and track the physical location of president...

Introduction The goal of this report is to assess the readability of the campaign speeches of five presidential candidates in the 2016 US presidential race and to examine their evolution over time and according to the type of speech. Readability can be defined here as the reading level, from grade 1 to grade 12, of a document. It is determined by looking at the lexical contents and the grammati...