Heroes, Presidents, and Politics

Presidents and Parties in Regional Politics : Italy and Spain Compared

A Comment on Presidents and the Politics of Structure

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Green Heroes

1 Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Parassitologia, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Centre Medical Saint Camille, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 4 Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome Trust Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Resea...

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...