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Assessing Changing Views of the President: Revisiting Greenstein's Children and Politics
Author(s) -
CARTER AMY,
TETEN RYAN L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
presidential studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1741-5705
pISSN - 0360-4918
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5705.2002.tb00001.x
Subject(s) - presidency , politics , institution , political science , public administration , law
This study examines the political views that American children hold of the presidency. Using the template of Fred Greenstein's survey and work in Children and Politics (1969), the authors seek to compare changes in the opinions of children about the president. They find that children in today's political world still view the presidency as the dominant political office and see it as a powerful, and overall positive, institution. However, in contrast to past studies, the authors find that young children do differentiate between the presidency as an institution and the specific officeholder. The study also finds that today's children are more willing to cast negative opinions regarding the president than children of the past.