Gary E. Hollibaugh

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    What Trump and Clinton’s personality traits tell us about how they might govern as president.

What Trump and Clinton’s personality traits tell us about how they might govern as president.

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During the course of the 2016 presidential election, the topic of candidate temperament and fitness for office has been widely discussed. Adam J. Ramey, Jonathan D. Klingler, and Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr. show how their personality traits can be estimated from their speech, and what these estimates imply for how they might govern from the White House: Clinton is […]

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    President Obama placed his most competent appointees in agencies most important to—and most resistant to—his political agenda.

President Obama placed his most competent appointees in agencies most important to—and most resistant to—his political agenda.

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One of President Obama’s most important tasks upon entering office in 2008 was the filling of more than 3,000 appointed positions within the federal government. But what governed these appointments, policy expertise or political reasons such as campaign experience? By studying more than 1,300 of Obama’s presidential appointments Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr., Gabriel Horton, and David E. Lewis find […]

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