approval: Data on US Presidential Approval

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Data on US Presidential Approval

Description

A dataset from: Cavari, Amnon. 2019. "Evaluating the President on Your Priorities: Issue Priorities, Policy Performance, and Presidential Approval, 1981–2016." Presidential Studies Quarterly 49(4): 798-826.

Usage

data(approval)

Format

A data frame with 140 rows and 14 variables:

APPROVE

Presidential approval

APPROVE_ECONOMY

Presidential approval: economy

APPROVE_FOREIGN

Presidential approval: foreign affairs

MIP_MACROECONOMICS

Salience (Most Important Problem): economy

MIP_FOREIGN

Salience (Most Important Problem): foreign affairs

PARTY_IN

Macropartisanship (in-party)

PARTY_OUT

Macropartisanship (out-party)

PRESIDENT

Numeric indicator for president

DIVIDEDGOV

Dummy variable for divided government

ELECTION

Dummy variable for election years

HONEYMOON

Dummy variable for honeymoon period

UMCSENT

Consumer sentiment

UNRATE

Unemployment rate

APPROVE_L1

Lagged presidential approval

Source

\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/psq.12594")}

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