Presidents and Political Scandal: Managing Scandal in the Modern Era (Hardcover, 2020)

· 제목 : Presidents and Political Scandal: Managing Scandal in the Modern Era (Hardcover, 2020) 
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 정치학 > 미국정부 > 미국정부 일반
· ISBN : 9783030455033
· 쪽수 : 173쪽
· 출판일 : 2020-07-19

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