The purpose of this note is to complete the estimates made in Auberger (2012) for French presidential elections. We study the influence of the local unemployment on the vote for French presidential elections. We build another variable taking into account the responsibility of the incumbent President for the economic situation after a cohabitation period. We also make estimates for the second-ro...

We compare the contents of Fox and MSNBC weekday evening telecasts using natural language analysis with Linguistic Inventory Word Count (LIWC) sociopolitical dictionaries tapping into moral foundations, values, grievances, personality. Across time, two networks differed substantially across many constructs, particularly those from LIWC. The core difference between was captured by a four-compone...

Corpora play an important role in linguistics research and foreign language teaching. At present, the relevant on corpus China mainly uses WordSmith, Antconc other retrieval tools. NLTK library, which is based Python language, can provide more flexible rich methods, it use unified data standards to avoid trouble of various type conversion. same time, with help Python’s numerous third-party libr...

Politicians, especially those who are running for president, very influential their supporters. How to speak is often a role model his followers. In fact, orders and prohibitions were strongly held by sympathizers. addressing the differences in quick count results between several survey institutions of internal surveys triggering declaration victory each presidential candidate. Submission direc...

We examine attitudes of the pubic toward delegation to presidential commissions. In four survey experiments across a range of contexts, we compare the public response to the creation of a commission to that of a direct presidential action. We find that there is no significant difference in the approval garnered for taking action alone or delegating the decision to a presidential commission. Thi...

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...

A modification of the ''winner-take-all'' rule for awarding state electoral votes in US presidential elections is proposed. The modified rule has the potential of turning a state that is currently ''safe'' for either major party candidate into a ''battleground'' one, forcing presidential candidates to compete in the state and encouraging state voters (interested in the election result) to vote ...

Previous scholarship argues that House members’ partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate? Analyzing the allocation of more than $8.5 trillion of federal grants across the states from 1984 to 2008, we show that presi...

The current research investigated whether people’s issue-specific moral and religious convictions had distinct or redundant effects on their intentions to vote in the 2008 presidential election. Participants reported their levels of moral and religious conviction about the issue that they perceived as most important to the 2008 presidential election and their intentions to vote. Results indicat...

One of the most used theories in the research of political debates is the functional theory of campaign discourse. However, the theory has been criticized for being too culturally limited. In the present article, a Finnish presidential debate is analyzed from the perspective of functional theory. The goal is to critically evaluate the applicability of functional theory to the analysis of Finnis...