In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, "Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability" shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval Office. To measure correlations between presidential campaigns and policy-making, Michele P. Claibourn closely examines detailed campaign advertising information, survey data about citizen's responses to campaigns, processes that create expectations among constituents, and media attention and response to...

In investigating the presidential campaigns and early administrations of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, "Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability" shows how campaign promises are realized in government once the victor is established in the Oval Office. To measure correlations between presidential campaigns and policy-making, Michele P. Claibourn closely examines detailed campaign advertising information, survey data about citizen's responses to campaigns, processes that create expectations among constituents, and media attention and response to...