Monkey Business: The Effect of Scandals on Presidential Primary Nominations

Rottinghaus, Brandon

doi:10.1017/s1049096514000249

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“…All else equal, reports that a politician has engaged in scandalous behavior clearly harm his or her career: politicians involved in political scandals are evaluated less favorably (Abramowitz 1988;1991;Carlson, Ganiel, and Hyde 2000;Doherty, Dowling, and Miller 2011;Funk 1996;Groseclose and Krehbiel 1994;Jacobson and Dimock 1994;Peters and Welch 1980;Welch and Hibbing 1997), have a more diffi cult time raising campaign funds (Rottinghaus 2014), face higher odds of a high-quality challenger emerging in both the next primary and general elections (Basinger 2013;Lazarus 2008), and tend to win a smaller vote share in the next election (Basinger 2013;Brown 2006). Yet, existing evidence also suggests that voters' responses to politicians' missteps depend a great deal on the circumstances involved.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Time Heal All Wounds? Sex Scandals, Tax Evasion, and the Passage of Time

Doherty

Dowling

Miller

2014

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

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Does Time Heal All Wounds? Sex Scandals, Tax Evasion, and the Passage of Time

Doherty

Dowling

Miller

2014

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“…M. Cameron 2002, 655). With the exception of Nyhan (2015), previous studies that have been conducted largely focus on the effects of scandal or ethics charges on presidents, members of Congress, or other politicians rather than their causes (see, for example, Basinger 2013; Meinke and Anderson 2001; Rottinghaus 2014a, 2014b, 2015; Welch and Hibbing 1997).…”

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Media Scandals Are Political Events

Nyhan

2017

Political Research Quarterly

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When political scandals erupt in the press, we usually blame misconduct by public officials, but these episodes are political events whose occurrence and severity also depend in part on the political and media context. Using data on U.S. governors, I show that several key factors affect the likelihood and intensity that alleged misconduct will be politicized by the opposition and publicized by the press. First, lower approval ratings, which decrease the cost of politicizing and publicizing an allegation, are generally associated with more frequent and intense media scandals. By contrast, competing news events can crowd potential scandals off the news agenda. However, no evidence is found that opposition control of state political institutions leads to more media scandal. These results suggest that the occurrence of media scandal depends more on circumstance than we typically assume.

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“…A good part of the current literature has examined the conditions under which scandals emerge and the scope of their effects on politicians, voting, and public trust (Adut, 2005; Basinger, 2013; Bowler and Karp, 2004; Entman, 2012; Lawrence and Bennett, 2001; Nyhan, 2015; Rottinghaus, 2014a, 2014b). A crucial variable explaining the emergence of scandals concerns the state of the media environment at the time of the normative violation.…”

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Governance by scandal? Eradicating sexual assault in the US military

Crosbie¹,

Sass

2016

Politics

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This article examines the relationship between scandal and democracy through the case of sexual assault within the US military. Scandal is routinely seen as hostile to democracy. It signals either the corruption of prominent institutions or the decline of ethical journalism. But scandal may have a positive dimension in forcing tainted institutions to correct their course. To explore this thesis, we examine how the US military responded to news reports of sexual assault over a period of nearly four decades. During the first three decades of this period, news reports of sexual assault were widespread but largely ignored by military leaders. During the last decade, however, the fact that sexual assault was endemic but largely ignored by the armed forces triggered a scandal, one senior military figures were forced to address. In light of this case, the article concludes that scandal can function as a mechanism of democratic governance, where it compels social and ethical norms to be properly enforced.

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Monkey Business: The Effect of Scandals on Presidential Primary Nominations

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Does Time Heal All Wounds? Sex Scandals, Tax Evasion, and the Passage of Time

Does Time Heal All Wounds? Sex Scandals, Tax Evasion, and the Passage of Time

Media Scandals Are Political Events

Governance by scandal? Eradicating sexual assault in the US military

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