Presidential popularity from truman to johnson

American Political Science Review

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1970, Pages 18-34

  Mueller, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 84971914975     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1955610     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Quoted, David Wise, “The Twilight of a President,” New York Times Magazine, November 3,1968, p. 131.
2. Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power; The Politics of Leadership (New York: Wiley, 1960), p. 205.
3. See for example the breakdowns in Gallup Opinion Index, March, 1966, p. 4.
4. An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, 1957), pp. 55-60.
5. H. G. Erskine, “The Polls,” 28 Public Opinion Quarterly, 341 and 338 (Summer 1964).
6. John M. Fenton In Your Opinion (Bos-ton: Little, Brown, 1960), p. 146.
7. “The Empty-head Blues: Black Rebellion and White Reaction.” The Public Interest, Spring 1968, pp. 3–16
8. “The Empty-head Blues: Black Rebellion and White Reaction.” The Public Interest, Spring 1968, pp. 3–16.
9. On the bandwagon effect among nonvoters, see Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes, The American Voter (New York: Wiley, 1960), pp. 110-115
10. Burns Roper, “The Public Looks at Presidents,” The Public Pulse, January 1969.
11. The Prince, ch. XVII
12. Kenneth N. Waltz, “Electoral Punishment and Foreign Policy Crisis” in James N. Rosenau, Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy (New York: Free Press, 1967), p. 272.
13. Tom Wicker, “In the Nation: Peace, It's Wonderful,” New York Times, July 4, 1967, p. 18.
14. Tom Wicker, “In the Nation: Peace, It's Wonderful,” New York Times, July 4, 1967, p.100
15. Congress and the Presidency (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964), p. 25.
16. Data were gathered from Geoffrey H. Moore (ed.), Business Cycle Indicators, Vol. II (Prince-ton: Princeton University Press, 1961), p. 122; and, for more recent data, issues of the Monthly Labor Review.
17. “The Pain Threshold of Economics in an Election Year,” New York Times, July 15, 1968.
18. A. T. Steele, The American People and China (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966), p. 294. In May 1964 Gallup found almost two-thirds of the population said they paid little or no attention to developments in South Vietnam. Lloyd A. Free and Hadley Cantril, The Political Beliefs of Americans (New York: Clarion, 1968), pp. 59-60.
19. John E. Mueller, “Patterns of Popular Support for the Wars in Korea and Vietnam,” unpublished paper, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester, 1969.
20. John E. Mueller, “Patterns of Popular Support for the Wars in Korea and Vietnam,” unpublished paper, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester, 1969., P.97
21. Samuel A. Stouffer, Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955), especially ch. 3; Campbell, et al. op. cit., pp. 50-51; Nelson W. Polsby, “Toward an Explanation of McCarthyism,” 8 Political Studies (October 1960); Elmo Roper, You and Your Leaders (New York: Morrow, 1957), pp. 250–251.
22. See Philip E. Converse and Georges Dupeux, “De Gaulle and Eisenhower: The Public Image of the Victorious General,” in Angus Campbell, et al., Elections and the Political Order (New York: Wiley, 1966), pp. 292–345.
23. See Clinton Rossiter, The American Presidency (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960), pp. 161–178.
24. Meg Greenfield, “The Great American Morality Play,” The Reporter, June 8, 1961, pp. 13–18.