The Process and Significance of Political Scandals: A Comparison of Watergate and the "Sewergate" Episode at the Environmental Protection Agency. (4th August 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Process and Significance of Political Scandals: A Comparison of Watergate and the "Sewergate" Episode at the Environmental Protection Agency. (4th August 2014)
- Main Title:
- The Process and Significance of Political Scandals: A Comparison of Watergate and the "Sewergate" Episode at the Environmental Protection Agency
- Authors:
- Szasz, Andrew
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Purposeful scandalmongering is a familiar and particularly dramatic feature of the American political process. If successful, it embarrasses one's political opponents, blocks their policies, and perhaps even drives them from office. This paper compares Watergate, the most important recent example of political scandal, and "Sewergate, " the 1983 episode at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Based on this comparison, I develop a conceptual framework that describes the course or trajectory of scandal. I then evaluate what effects the two episodes had on substantive policy and on mass political attitudes. I find that neither Watergate nor Sewergate had much enduring impact and conclude by discussing the significance of scandals in light of their rather modest long-term consequences.
- Is Part Of:
- Social problems. Volume 33:Number 3(1986:Feb.)
- Journal:
- Social problems
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 3(1986:Feb.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 3 (1986)
- Year:
- 1986
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 1986-0033-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 202
- Page End:
- 217
- Publication Date:
- 2014-08-04
- Subjects:
- Social problems -- Periodicals
301 - Journal URLs:
- http://socpro.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://www.oxfordjournals.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.2307/800705 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0037-7791
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- Legaldeposit
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