Analyses of the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during election day. Analyzing high frequency financial fluctuations following the release of flawed exit...

This study focuses on the online campaigning of presidential candidates during the 2004 US presidential campaign. A random sample of the front pages of the websites and weblogs (‘‘blogs’’) of George W. Bush and John Kerry was collected between Labor Day and Election Day 2004. These pages were analyzed in order to examine both candidate blogs and websites in terms of online fundraising, hyperlin...

According to terror management theory (Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, 1997), one factor that increases the tendency to support leaders is the need to quell mortality concerns. The present research applied this analysis to investigate how thoughts about death and the 9/11 terrorist attacks (a death prime) influence attitudes toward the current president of the United States, George W. Bush. Re...

We proceed from the assumption that extracting and representing the meanings of texts that serve as sources for information extraction will enhance the latter’s quality. In particular, we believe that resolving reference in these texts will lead to higher levels of recall in IE because additional information will become available for extraction once it can be captured not simply by matching cha...

What is the ideological direction of the judges whom President George W. Bush has appointed to the bench during his first term? Until now we have had no quantitative, empirical data to respond to this query. Critics of the President, often liberal Democrats, have suggested that Bush’s judicial appointees are ultra-conservatives who are hostile to the interests of racial minorities, women, the e...

T here is much to applaud in the legislation authorizing US foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS (the US Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act -hereafter the Leadership Act). President George W. Bush and Congress passed this landmark legislation in a laudable effort to address the catastrophic HIV/AIDS pandemic. The law has vastly increased US funding for HIV/AIDS programs and h...

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