Francia, PeterBronson, Emily Paige2025-06-192025-06-192025-052025-05-09May 2025http://hdl.handle.net/10342/14157This honors thesis is a project that shows statistical significance between leadership traits of American presidents and their approval ratings in a time-series like project. This project takes seemingly subjective leadership traits and assigns them numeric meaning using Leadership Trait Analysis piloted by Margaret Herman's scholarship. It required a new codebook and leadership analysis research model that the author of this project created, which can be further used to better presidential, federal, state and municipal candidacy.application/pdfPresidential, Leadership, Traits, Approval Ratings, Quantitative.Honors Thesis2025-06-12