Structural Change in Presidential Attention

• In Event: Federal Policymaking and Policy Attention

Brief Overview

This paper examines U.S. presidential attention in the State of the Union address from 1946 to 2020. Using Bayesian analysis, we identify when structural changes occur in attention and use probabilities to identify the causes of structural change.

Authors

• Rebecca Michelle Eissler, San Francisco State University

• Nicholas Conway, San Francisco State University