The Institutional Effects of Executive Scandals (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Studying scandals: state and national executive scandals; 2. Strategic decisions: stonewall or come clean?; 3. The institutional and political dynamics to political survival; 4. The effect of scandal on executive action and policy selection; 5. The effect of scandals on executive-legislative relations; 6. Scandals and charges of corruption; 7. The impacts and implications of executive scandals on the American political system.