Richard A. Brody and Catherine R. Shapiro, in PoliticalThe President Behavior Annual (Volume 2), Westview Press, 5500 Central
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Scholars and politicians have long cited the "rally around the flag" effect: thanks to patriotic sentiment, public approval of the president always goes up in times of inter- national crisis.
Not so, say Brody and Shapiro, of Stan- ford University. Such grassroots support is "far from automatic." In some cases, the president...