PCA and Profile Results by Individual Studies

This page gives results of PCA and analysis using profiles by individual studies. Press the link under each study to see interactive web applications for each study.

Under each study, we also report the results measuring the consistency between a principal component and rhetorical profile. Specifically, we measure whether top-ranking speeches (top and bottom) on the original component (using all 28 the variables of the component) fall in the higher percentile of speeches on a profile (using only core and non-core variables) as well. The results reported on this page are based on the 50% percentile and 20 speeches on top and bottom. This means you get perfect consistency (100% or a score of 1 on a 0-1 scale) if all the top-rated speeches on the profile fall above the 50th percentile on the original component. If you press the link to results button for each study, you can explore the consistency at different cut-off values. As you can see all studies except for study 5 yielded 100% consistency between the original PCA component and the rhetorical profile derived from it.

Studies in the Book

Chapter One: Hillary Clinton’s Rhetorical Profiles in Governance

Chapter Two: The Rhetorical Profiles of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic Primary

Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Profiles of Hillary Clinton And Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primary

Chapter Four: The Rhetorical Profiles of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Campaign

Conclusion: Women Presidential Candidates and the Democratic Primaries of 2008, 2016, and 2020

Supplemental Studies

Study Six: Clinton Governing vs. Campaigning

Study Seven: Clinton vs. Her Presidential Opponents

Study Eight: Clinton in Campaigning