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Presidents and Political Scandal
Managing Scandal in the Modern Era
von Richard P. Barberio
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
Reihe: The Evolving American Presidency
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ISBN: 978-3-030-45504-0
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Erschienen am 18.07.2020
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 173 Seiten

Preis: 106,99 €

Biografische Anmerkung
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Richard Barberio is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York's College at Oneonta, USA. He writes widely and teaches on American political institutions and processes, and is the author of The Politics of Public Policy (2014). 



Chapter 1: The Role of Scandal in American Politics


1. Introduction


2. Why Scandal?


3. Evaluating the Scandals


4. The Allure of Political Scandal


5. The Plan for the Book


Chapter 2: Presidential Power, Scandal, and Misdirection


1. The Presidential Advantage


2. Public Responses to Presidential Scandals


3. Scandal Types


a. Sex Scandals


b. Financial Scandals


c. Power Scandals


4. Strategies of Presidential Scandal Management


a. Stonewalling


b. Cooperation and Cooperative Stonewalling


c. The Third Strategy: Misdirection


5. The Path Ahead


Chapter 3: Nixon and Watergate


1. Introduction


2. The Antecedents of Watergate: Nixon's Rise to Power through Crisis


3. Measuring Responses: Public Actions or Private Reprisals?


4. Watergate: From Break-in to Cover-up


5. Contemplating a Backfire: The Benefits and Costs of a Democratic Counter Scandal


6. Outcomes


Chapter 4: The Reagan Administration and Iran-Contra


1. Introduction


2. The Origins of Iran-Contra


3. The Cover-up


4. Potential Benefits of a Backfire to Manage Scandal


5. Evidence for the use of a Backfire


6. Outcomes


Chapter 5: Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair


1. Introduction


2. From Whitewater to Lewinsky


3. The Initial Response - To Attack or Not?


4. The Cover-up


5. Managing the Scandal


6. The White House Strikes Back?


7. The Campaign to Discredit Lewinsky


8. Discussion


9. Applying the Framework


Chapter 6: President Trump: The Conquest of Backfire Scandal Management


1. Introduction


2. A Roadmap of Grievances


3. Russia and the Mueller Report


4. Ukraine and the "Perfect Phone Call"


5. Potential Benefits of a Backfire to Manage Scandal


6. Evidence for the use of a Backfire


7. Outcomes


Chapter 7: Comparing the Cases


1. Introduction


2. Summarizing the Cases


a. Clinton


b. Nixon


c. Reagan


d. Trump


3. Thinking Counterfactually: What If?


4. Why Not? The "Soft Guardrails" of Democracy


5. The Antecedents of Backfire Politics: Polarization


6. A Media Revolution


7. The Need for a Receptive Audience


8. What If? Putting the Backfire Puzzle Together


9. Summary


Chapter 8: Conclusions


1. Introduction


2. The Use of Backfires: A Systemic Eventuality or Individual Happenstance?


3. Opportunity for Presidential Choice


4. A Projection of Future Trends


5. Backfires in a Constitutional Democracy


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