How Presidents Invoke Power

• In Event: Executive Power and Policymaking

Brief Overview

How do early presidents invoke power? Applying text and sentiment analysis to textual data, we find considerable variations in how early presidents refer to power. Broadly, we find evidence of presidents as “chief clerk” and behaving strategically.

Authors

• Richard W. Waterman, University of Kentucky

• Sherelle Angelique Roberts, University of Kentucky

• Yu Ouyang, Purdue University Northwest

• Seth Shockley, University of Kentucky