Replication Data For: Empirically Contrasting Presidential Rhetorical Simplicity and the Public's Policy Preferences (doi:10.7910/DVN/LDM8OL)

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Citation

Title:

Replication Data For: Empirically Contrasting Presidential Rhetorical Simplicity and the Public's Policy Preferences

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/LDM8OL

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2015-08-11

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Bibliographic Citation:

Olds, Christopher, 2015, "Replication Data For: Empirically Contrasting Presidential Rhetorical Simplicity and the Public's Policy Preferences", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LDM8OL, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data For: Empirically Contrasting Presidential Rhetorical Simplicity and the Public's Policy Preferences

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/LDM8OL

Authoring Entity:

Olds, Christopher

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Olds, Christopher

Depositor:

Olds, Christopher

Date of Deposit:

2015-08-11

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LDM8OL

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, presidential communication, rhetorical simplicity, linguistic simplification, presidential rhetoric, political communication, public opinion, Flesch readability

Abstract:

Research on presidential rhetoric has noted the explicit communications strategy of simplifying the language in presidential remarks to the public. Rhetorical simplification removes in-depth political analysis and argumentation from executive branch communications. Research by Elvin T. Lim (2008) shows that presidential rhetoric that is linguistically simplified is also substantively simplified language. Linguistically and substantively simplified language can be interpreted to mean the political environment is lacking complications or difficulties. Simplified presidential rhetoric has the potential to encourage people to perceive there is no need for an expansion in government involvement in domestic affairs. As an initial attempt to assess this possibility, time series analyses of presidential rhetorical simplicity and public opinion in the United States are performed using quarterly information spanning between 1993 and 2011.

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Article: "Empirically contrasting presidential rhetorical simplicity and the public's policy preferences." Journal of Communications Research. 6 (1): 1-19.

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OldsRhetoricalSimplicityPublicPreferencesCommands.txt

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RATS commands used to perform time series analyses contrasting presidential rhetorical simplicity and public policy mood.

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OldsRhetoricalSimplicityPublicPreferencesData.xls

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Quarterly information on presidential rhetorical simplicity and public opinion about government involvement in domestic affairs. The public opinion information is from Stimson's public policy mood measure. Includes all information needed for replication, including dummy indicators.

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