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  • Do winners spread more words? Factional competition and local media reports on corruption investigation in China

  • Ji Yeon Hong, Leo Y. Yang
  • Journal:
    Political Science Research and Methods / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / April 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 September 2022, pp. 372-389
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  • This paper explores how factional competition shapes local media's coverage of negative political news. Employing news reports that appeared in Chinese national and local newspapers (2000–2014) coupled with data on the networks of elites, we find that local bureaucrats connected to strong national leaders tend to criticize members of weaker factions in politically damaging news reports. These adverse reports indeed harm the promotion prospects of the province leaders reported on in the articles, weakening the already weak factions and expanding the relative power of the strong factions. Our findings suggest that the loyalty-based competitive behaviors of political elites further tilt an already uneven playing field across political factions and facilitate power concentration in China.

  • 1 - Union, Faction and Political Participation

  • Christine Shaw
  • Book:
    Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy
    Published online:
    18 November 2021
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    25 November 2021, pp 15-46

  • Summary

    One of the most generally accepted tenets of political thinking in Italian republics was the virtue of unione, and the benefits that proceeded from it; on the other hand, it was a common perception that discord was ruinous.While the desirability of unione was never questioned, it did not override attachment to factions, or the significance of networks of political friends, amici. That political life was structured around factions or networks of amici was simply a fact in Italian republics, and widely, if generally tacitly, accepted as such.Nor did the value of unione necessarily override the idea that social status had an important bearing on political rights. Whatever the reality, the importance attached to the appearance of unione was one reason for restrictions on freedom of speech within and outside of council chambers.