From Camelot to the Teflon President: Economics and Presidential Popularity Since 1960

by David J. Lanoue

This work is a detailed description of the use of Box Jenkins time-series analysis techniques--including autoregressive-integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling--to test two hypotheses relating economic conditions to presidential popularity. . . . Lanoue's model shows the two hypotheses to be interrelated. Rising inflation rates have a negative effect on presidential popularity; falling inflation rates have no impact. These negative impacts are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313263930
• ISBN13: 9780313263934
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"