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Scandal Potential How political context and news congestion affect the president’s vulnerability to media scandal

Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. In this article, I provide a theoretical argument for two independent ...

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Background: Life expectancy in China has been improving markedly but health gains have been uneven and there is inequality in survival chances between regions and in rural as against urban areas. This paper applies a statistical modelling approach to mortality data collected in conjunction with the 2000 Census to formally assess spatial mortality contrasts in China. The modelling approach provi...

Games with espionage

We consider normal form games in which two players decide on their strategies before the start of play and Player 1 can purchase noisy information about his opponent’s decisions concerning future response policies (i.e., spy on his opponent). We give a full characterization of the set of distributions over the players’ payo¤s that can be induced by such equilibria, as well as describe their wel...

When news becomes entertainment: Representations of corruption in Indonesia’s media and the implication of scandal