Common-Space Significance Measure of Presidential Unilateral Action

• In Event: The Unilateral Presidency

Brief Overview

I compile a data set that, in addition to EOs, includes presidential proclamations and memoranda issued from 1947 through 2016 (8399 directives in total). I employ a Bayesian approach to estimate the significance of each directive in a common space.

Author

• Fang-Yi Chiou, Academia Sinica