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Foreign Policy and Presidential Popularity
Creating Windows of Opportunity in the Perpetual Election
Robin F. Marra
Southern Methodist University
Charles W. Ostrom, Jr.
Michigan State University
Dennis M. Simon
Southern Methodist University
Variations in public support for the president have been explained in three different ways. First, approval has been viewed as controlled by the law of inevitable decline. Second, public support has been characterized as a function of an "environmental connection" between chief executives and macrofeatures of the political and economic landscape. Finally, some view "political drama" (e.g., speeches, trips, diplomatic agreements, and so on) as an important role in determining the popularity of the president. The present analysis offers a comprehensive model of public support for the president which draws on all three explanations and partitions the presidentially relevant factors into domestic and foreign policy subsets. The comprehensive model is operationalized and estimated using 573 Gallup presidential approval polls from January 1949 through December 1984. Empirical analysis demonstrated that factors derived from all three explanations contribute to the prediction of public support. In addition, the analysis evaluated the relative impact of domestic and foreign influences and located potential levers that presidents might pull to influence this popular support.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 34, No. 4,
588-623 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0022002790034004002
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