This paper constructs and examines a macroeconomic model which combines features from both real and political business cycle models. We augment a standard real business cycle tax model by allowing for varying levels of government partisanship and competence in order to replicate two important empirical regularities: First, that on average the economy expands early under Democratic Presidents an...

Purpose – The present study aims at contributing to the knowledge of organizational communication and cross-cultural female leadership by examining the conflict management strategies between Taiwanese female presidents and their American counterparts in Rotary Clubs. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through field observations and 25 in-depth interviews with 14 Taiwanese female ...

Congress’s power of the purse is effective enough to block implementation a policy Congress disagrees with, especially in case foreign policies initiated by presidents. However, it puzzling that congressional deference presidents, instead defiance, has been common. Conventionally, presidents’ informational advantages over have presented as main account for deference. This connotes surrender pre...

Dovoters reward presidents for increased federal spending in their local constituencies? Previous research on the electoral consequences of federal spending has focused almost exclusively on Congress, mostly with null results. However, in a countyand individual-level study of presidential elections from 1988 to 2008, we present evidence that voters reward incumbent presidents (or their party’s ...

Anthropogenic climate change is inherently a biometeorological issue. As such, it would be reasonably expected that the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB) and its journal, International Journal of Biometeorology (IJB), would have had climate change feature prominently in their activities, articles etc., and to therefore have made a substantial and valuable contribution to the science...

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...

This study aims to explain the use of humor by Indonesian presidents for political communication. Presidents’ is an interesting phenomenon, given that they are social subjects who wield great power within a country. Their position leads different characteristics and impacts due used. research uses qualitative descriptive approach. Data was collected from books, news sites, YouTube channels docu...