Rating the presidents: a tracking study.
Presidential Studies Quarterly › Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, June 1997
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The Siena Research Institution will continue their Presidential Ratings Studies, an opinion of the US president by academics, historians and political scientists. The survey addresses issues ranging from background, luck, compromise, executive and leadership abilities to the president's relationship with Congress. The survey tracks opinion immediately following the president's term in office to well after it concludes to determine if time impacts rating.
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Rating the presidents: a tracking study.
Between 1982 and 1994, the Siena Research Institute completed and released three Presidential Ratings Studies. Each was administered approximately one year after the inauguration of a new president. For the first of the three presidents, Ronald Reagan, we currently have ratings one year into his first term, one year after he left office, and five years after his presidency ended. We also have the appropriate parallel studies for George Bush and Bill Clinton. It is our intention to continue these tracking surveys, at the same intervals, with each change of administration. The next Siena Research Institute study is scheduled for January 2002.
The survey is one of expert opinion, solicited from academic historians and political scientists throughout the United States. Rather than solicit their views on which president was "great," or a "failure" as has become the custom, we created, in 1980, what we believe to be a more objective rating scale. We established twenty se...See the full content of this document
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