Replication data for: What Time is it? The Use of Power in Four Different Types of Presidential Time, 1996

This article describes and tests four different theories about how time constrains and defines the use of presidential power. It describes power use in theories arguing for a gradual secular increase in presidential power over time, in theories arguing for cycles of presidential power in time, in theories contending that power use is determined most markedly by a president being an "early" or "modern" president, and theories which argue that power use is contingent upon the term and year within the term in which a president attempts to use power. It conducts some preliminary tests of each of these theories and suggests that early/modern theory and the cyclical theory conform to hypothesized predictions about power.