Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in Political Cabinets.
Empirical evidence suggests that a Prime Minister can benefit from firing ministers who are involved in political scandals. We explore a model in which a minister's exposure to scandals is positvely related to his policy activism, so that a Prime Minister may wish to protect him from resignatio...
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| Format: | Working paper |
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2005
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