Spark Talk: “Presidential Policymaking, 1877–2020” by Aaron Kaufman (September 20th, 2024)
Online Event
20/09/2024, 10:30 am - TO 20/09/2024 - 11:30 am
Organizer: Spark / Social Science
What can US presidents actually do, and how much do they do it? This talk will introduce a new data set of more than 100,000 acts of policymaking that presidents have taken on their own, without Congressional approval. Through computational text analysis, we study this corpus to build a new understanding of presidential power.