{"product_id":"does-it-matter-what-presidents-say-von-ph-d-lawrence","title":"Does it Matter What Presidents Say?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough scholars have long recognized the  president''s pre-eminent status as an agenda-setter,  there is surprisingly little evidence to suggest  that presidents can and do influence the public  agenda. While a modest literature reveals  presidential speeches as important determinants of  the public agenda, the assumption that rhetoric  matters¿commonly made by students of the presidency¿ has largely been unaccompanied by the support of  empirical evidence. Based on an extensive content  analysis of State of the Union Addresses from 1946  to 2003, this work considers in three separate  studies the influence of presidential rhetoric as a  tool for setting the public agenda. The first  considers the influence of presidential rhetoric on  aggregate-level evaluations of the salience of 1,113  issues discussed by 11 presidents from 1946 to 2003.  The second study estimates the influence of several  moderators of the relationship between presidential  rhetoric and the public agenda. The third study, an  experimental analysis, examines the influence of  presidential rhetoric used by President George W.  Bush in his discussion of the issue of the economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838341651\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Influence of Presidential Rhetoric on the Public Agenda\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838341651","offer_id":39498893066333,"sku":"9783838341651","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/dc1bc86a-a66a-40a0-8f00-3dce7930c50d.jpg?v=1737182990","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/does-it-matter-what-presidents-say-von-ph-d-lawrence","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}