Scandals in Past And Contemporary Politics

by Garrard, John; Newell, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780719065514
• ISBN10: 0719065518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-17
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

The exposure of political corruption and the growth of scandals in advanced democracies since the 1980s has made clear that scandals are a typical phenomenon of the modern age. John Garrard examines the social and historical significance of scandals in this insightful study.

Author Biography

John Garrard is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. James L. Newell is Reader in Politics at the University of Salford.

Table of Contents

List of boxes and tables	vii
List of contributors	viii
List of abbreviations	xi
Introduction
James L. Newell	1	(10)
I Theoretical and comparative perspectives	11	(48)
1 Scandals: an overview
John Garrard	13	(17)
2 Understanding the wave of scandal in contemporary Western Europe
Véronigue Pujas	30	(16)
3 Political scandals and political development in the United States
Robert Williams	46	(13)
II What scandals are and how they unfold	59	(62)
4 A journalist looks at political scandal
Chris Moncrieff	61	(16)
5 'Keeping the bastards honest': Australia and the investigation of political scandal
Jenny Fleming	77	(14)
6 Payments for no political response? Political corruption and tribunals of inquiry in Ireland, 1991-2003
Gary Murphy	91	(15)
7 Sex, lies and audiotapes: the Watergate and Monica Lewinsky scandals in American politics
Eric M. Uslaner	106	(15)
III Why scandals emerge and what they indicate	121	(56)
8 Political scandals and crisis management in Greece, 1821-2001
Kleomenis S. Koutsoukis	123	(14)
9 Scandal in a scandalous age: the impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings, 1788-95
Robin Theobald	137	(14)
10 Diamonds and videotape: political scandals and the presidents of the Fifth French Republic
Hélène Bilger-Street and Marion Demoissier	151	(12)
11 Contaminated blood and political scandal in Ireland
Anne-Maree Farrell	163	(14)
IV The results and functions of scandals	177	(52)
12 The role of scandals in post-Communist Russia
Julia Wishnevsky	179	(15)
13 How far and why do corruption scandals cost votes?
Fernando Jiménez and Miguel Cainzos	194	(19)
14 How scandals affect the values and policies of decision makers
Jeroen Maesschalck	213	(16)
Index	229