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Scoundrels

2023

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Introduction and Acknowledgments S. 1-12

„… : Political Scandals in American History is about scoundrels who were caught in scandals—specifically …” „… , political scandals. Often the original be-havior was outrageous, but the subsequent cover-up was worse. The …” „… scandals have been (and continue to be) commonplace in American political life. They must be examined as …”

Preface

„… 9781538130803 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Political corruption—United States—History. | Scandals—United …” „… ScoundrelsScoundrelsPolitical Scandals in American HistoryJ. Michael MartinezR O W M A N & L I T …” „… : Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael) author. Title: Scoundrels : political scandals in American history …”

Afterword S. 181-186

„… difficult. Political scandals require clarity. In cases where the action is clear, and the culprit is …” „… American elections is well established. Unlike some previous political corruption scandals, numerous …” „… will be) a feature of American politi-cal life. Although the causes of scandals remain the same—the …”

Chapter 4 “Have Those Men Dismissed by 3 O’clock This Afternoon or Shut Down the Bureau” S. 47-56

„… suffered through a series of political scandals during the Grant administration in the 1870s. President …” „… ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS OF THE 1870SCHAPTER 4GRANT ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS OF THE 1870sThe United States …” „… political issues facing his administration after he entered office in March 1869. He had been trained in …”

Chapter 8 “I Am Not a Crook” S. 101-114

„… of political scandals. Whenever anyone describes a political scandal, the speaker often claims that …” „… opening scene of the worst political scandal of the twentieth century and the beginning of the end of the …” „… become the scandal by which all other American scandals are judged. Whenever an elected official is …”

Chapter 10 “I Have Been in Government Long Enough to Know That You Don’t Have to Ask the Question Explicitly to Know What the Message Is” S. 123-132

„… 123Among the political and financial scandals during the latter half of the twentieth century, the …” „… SCANDALCHAPTER 10THE SAVINGS AND LOAN SCANDAL124 CHAPTER 10S&Ls grew by leaps and bounds, with apparently no …” „… Deregulation and Mon-THE SAVINGS AND LOAN SCANDAL 125etary Control Act of 1980, signed by President Jimmy …”

Notes S. 187-218

„… the People, 244.Chapter 5 1. Nancy E. Marion, The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal …” „… ), 249; Kim Long, The Almanac of Political Cor-ruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics (New York: Delta …” „… Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in Ameri-can Politics (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic …”

Bibliography S. 219-230

„… Own Law.” Toronto Star, June 28, 2020, IN.2.Long, Kim. The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals …” „… Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in American Poli-tics. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010 …” „… Praying that the Jack Abramoff Casino-Lobbying Scandal Won’t Make Them Big-Time Losers.” Church & State 59 …”

Chapter 5 “Do You Believe This Man Is a Crook? If He Is a Crook, Convict Him” S. 57-74

„… era was a scandal that occurred during the presidency of Warren G. Harding in the 1920s. Harding had …” „… means. It was common in that era to contribute large sums to political candidates in hopes of ensuring …” „… studied law THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL 59on his own in his spare time. As a young man, Fall headed to the …”

Chapter 9 “Money Talks in This Business, and Bullshit Walks” S. 115-122

„… political figures. Seven members of Congress—one senator and six House members—were con-victed of accepting …” „… undercover “sheiks”—also asked for building permits and casino licenses in Atlantic City.4 THE ABSCAM SCANDAL …” „… ), and convicted con man Melvin Weinberg. (Balfore Archive Images / Alamy Stock Photo)THE ABSCAM SCANDAL …”

Chapter 7 “Nobody Sat Down in Front of Me with a Suitcase of Money” S. 89-100

„… AGNEWSpiro Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon’s vice president, began his political career in Baltimore …” „… American political leaders.1Under the terms of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, Nixon …” „… demonstrating the ruthless expediency that would always be his political lodestar.Agnew’s road forward was rocky …”

Chapter 12 “All He Was Worried about Was Jack. Jack Has to Get His Next Big Check” S. 151-160

„… American political scandals.1Jack Allan Abramoff was born on February 28, 1959, in Atlantic City, New …” „… support for racist apartheid policies. Aside from the po-litical controversy, Red Scorpion was hardly …” „… and arrogantly engaged in a lifestyle of political corruption and business corruption.” Summarizing …”

Chapter 11 “I Told the American People I Did Not Trade Arms for Hostages. My Heart and My Best Intentions Still Tell Me That’s True, but the Facts and the Evidence Tell Me It Is Not” S. 133-150

„… 133The Iran-Contra scandal occurred during President Ronald Reagan’s second term in the White House …” „… affair too murky to make a successful impeachment proceeding likely.1The roots of the scandal stretched …” „… political capital to fulfill that mandate. His administration would resist Communism whenever and wherever …”

Chapter 13 “Everybody’s Trying to Get Me. It’s Unfair. Now Everybody’s Saying I’m Going to Be Impeached” S. 161-180

„… political scandal discussed in this book involves the 2016 presidential election, when the Russian …” „… election. It became one of numerous political scandals during the Trump era.1162 CHAPTER 13The affair …” „… Federation deliberately interfered in the American electoral process to sow seeds of discord and political …”

Chapter 3 “Mr. Sumner, I Have Read Your Speech Twice Over Carefully. It Is a Libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, Who Is a Relative of Mine” S. 39-46

„… American Civil War.In retrospect, Sumner’s political prominence seemed almost preordained. Born in Boston …” „… organize a short-lived antislavery political party, the Free Soil Party. The party’s slogan was “free soil …” „… major scandal as well as a turning point on the march toward a fundamental change in American life.21 …”

Chapter 2 “If I Were to Name This, I Would Call It the Will o’ Wisp Treason” S. 27-38

„… CONSPIRACYCHAPTER 2THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACYAaron Burr was a member of the revered founding generation of political …” „… into a pariah, a man whose vices consumed him. He became a Founder without a country, a political …” „… a sitting vice president who might have become president. The duel essentially ended his political …”

Chapter 6 “I Am the Only Candidate Inspected by the United States Government and Found to Be 100 Percent Pure” S. 75-88

„… Dakota in 1932, Langer developed a reputation as a heavy-handed political operative, a man unafraid of …” „… United States government.Two of Langer’s strongest political opponents prosecuted the case, and, not …” „… Dakota an independent political entity. He said he would not surrender until the state supreme court met …”

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Libertines

2022

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Preface

„… LibertinesLibertinesAmerican Political Sex Scandals from Alexander Hamilton to Donald TrumpJ …” „… Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Martinez, J. Michael, author. Title: Libertines : American political sex scandals from …” „… ] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “Historian Michael Martinez surveys political sex scandals …”

Ch14. “Who Would Have Thought That 90 Seconds with Donald Trump Would Turn Into 90 Percent of My Life?” S. 195-216

„… of My Life?”Donald Trump’s Sex ScandalsDonald J. Trump, forty-fifth president of the United States …” „… is a reasonably effective means of surviving multiple sex scandals.NOTES1. See, for example, Philip …” „… , became argu-ably the most divisive figure in American political history. A shamelessly self-promoting …”

Afterword S. 217-222

„… 217AfterwordSex scandals, as opposed to political corruption scandals, are relatively easy for the …” „… derail his political career. In other cases public figures survived a sex scandal—Daniel Sickles, Henry …” „… death doomed his political career. He might have survived a garden-variety sex scandal, assuming such a …”

Ch07. “It’s a Good Thing I’m Not a Woman. I Would Always be Pregnant. I Can’t Say No” S. 81-96

„… administration was rife with political corruption, most notably the Teapot Dome scandal, where Secretary of the …” „… , The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in American Politics (Durham, NC: Carolina …” „… here,” and subsequent historians and a skeptical public tended to agree.1The Teapot Dome scandal is …”

Ch06. “Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!” S. 69-80

„… that all scandals were off-limits. Offered a packet of papers allegedly containing political dirt on …” „… Scandal. His Unconventional Response Saved His Political Career—and Offered a Case Study in Public …” „… People, 261. 9. The committee report is printed in “The Charges Swept Away; A Political Scandal Speedily …”

Introduction and Acknowledgments S. 1-10

„… garden-variety sex scandal involving a prominent American political figure was established with these cases. A …” „… their fam-ilies, placing themselves in legal jeopardy, and potentially destroying their political …” „… chas-tity. Even the whiff of scandal was enough to imperil a successful public man’s reputation and success …”

References S. 223-234

„… Political Scandal Speedily Settled; Report of a Com-mittee of Independent Republicans, Dwelling in Buffalo …” „… Presidential Cam-paign Was Rocked by a Sex Scandal. His Unconventional Response Saved His Political Career—and …” „… Multidisciplinary Approach to the Construction and Aftermath of Contemporary Political Sex Scandals. Edited by …”

Ch09. “If Anybody Wants to Put a Tail on Me, Go Ahead. They’ll be Very Bored” S. 107-122

„… historic and severe.NOTES1. Nancy E. Marion, The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in …” „… . Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, “Donna Rice 30 Years After Political Scandal: How the Woman at the Center of …” „… Rice 30 Years After Political Scandal,” 79.13. Witcover, Party of the People, 635.14. Hart is quoted in …”

Ch04. “You Have Dishonored My House, and You Must Die!” S. 45-56

„… IIThe Sickles-Key scandal became one of the most salacious episodes of the nineteenth century, one of …” „… once-promising political career was derailed. He would go on to greater fame—or perhaps “infamy” would be a more …” „… fireplace, dismissing it as unfounded rumor and nothing more, perhaps a political enemy’s twisted effort to …”

Ch13. “If Only He’d Hired a Hooker Like a Normal Congressman” S. 179-194

„… Pride pa-rade in 2009, two years before his first sex scandal ended his political career. Courtesy of …” „… was a seven-term US congressman when his political ca-reer was engulfed by a controversy of his own …” „… many of the political figures profiled in this book acted in risky ways that all but ensured that they …”

Index S. 235-248

„… of, 60–62; drawing of, 64; and Tilton scandal, 3–4, 57–60, 62–63, 218; and Tilton trial, 3, 63–65 …” „… ; drawing of, 76; as president, 76–77; and sex scandal, 3, 4, 69, 70–77, 218, 219;Cleveland, Oscar Folsom …” „… , 74Clinton administration, 142, 143Clinton, Bill, 181, 182, 183; aftermath of the scandal, 154–55; and …”

Ch01. “My Real Crime Is an Amorous Connection with His Wife” S. 11-24

„… Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics (New York: Delta Paperbacks, 2007), 10.10. Hamilton …” „… Character,” 398–404; Long, The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics, 10.24. Brookhiser …” „… ReynoldsSecretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was at the height of his polit-ical power and influence in June …”

Ch08. “She Had the WAYS; He Had the MEANS” S. 97-106

„… . See also Nancy E. Marion, The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in American Politics …” „… of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics (New York: Delta Paperbacks, 2007), 230–31; Marion …” „… , December 3, 1974, 32, 85.5. Long, The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics, 230 …”

Ch11. “I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman, Miss Lewinsky” S. 139-158

„… , 353.45. The charge is quoted in Nancy E. Marion, The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal …” „… Monica LewinskyIt was the most infamous sex scandal in American history, and it nearly toppled an …” „… , he almost ruined his marriage and his political career.1The affair came to light during Clinton’s …”

Ch12. “Out of Respect for My Family, and Out of a Specific Request from the Levy Family, I Think It’s Best That I Not Get Into Those Details” S. 159-178

„… admit that he had lied, Condit soon found himself engulfed in a scandal that generated headlines across …” „… disappeared effectively destroyed his political career. An illegal immigrant who was arrested, tried, and …” „… political career, for Gary Condit’s star was ascending. He was a man who might have a truly stellar career …”

Ch02. “Dreams of Freedom in His Slave’s Embrace” S. 25-32

„… , The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics (New York: Delta Paperbacks, 2007 …” „… American history. Yet for all his political prowess, he is revered for more than his accomplishments in …” „… of the President himself.”7It was the sort of ugly, salacious rumor that surfaced whenever political …”

Ch03. “She Is as Chaste as a Virgin” S. 33-44

„… , rough around the edges, and determined to govern without assistance from political elites. His would be …” „… past became a potent political issue.2During the acrimonious 1824 contest, Rachel Jackson was labeled …” „… . Undaunted, his political enemies engaged in a series of seemingly unending machinations. When all was said …”

Ch10. “This Shadow Life Made a Mockery of My Marriage” S. 123-138

„… E. Marion, The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in Ameri-can Politics (Durham, NC …” „… was interested in pursuing a political career. He was a young man in a hurry. In 1960 he was elected …” „… effective that the Republican Party recruited the freshman legislator to create a political action committee …”

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Robert Kaiser, Jana Edelmann - Crisis as a Permanent Condition?

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Alberto Vannucci Between systemic corruption and anticorruption: political scandals and electoral accountability in Italy S. 203-236

„… 203 Between systemic corruption and anticorruption: political scandals and electoral …” „… ” – which hit the Italian political system have been corruption scandals, both in the early 1990s and …” „… out of it demons thrust them down with long hooks. This is the Political scandals and electoral …”

Luca Verzichelli Party professionalism and individualism in the "new" Italian ruling class S. 183-202

„… list of scandals shows that all the political institutions, all the territorial levels of Italian …” „… Introduction: Crises of the Italian political elite and the missed chance of the "Second Republic" This paper …” „… selector of the high-level political leadership for at least thirty-five years (Cotta 1992). Conceiving …”

Robert Kaiser, Jana Edelmann Introduction: Italy between transition and reform resistance S. 9-18

„… and political turmoil that has affected the Mediterranean periphery of the European Union at large …” „… unemployment. Not surprisingly, the chronic economic disease has spilled out into the country’s political …” „… political elite, was backed by one in four voters. M5S’s electoral rise put an end to the so-called …”

Christopher Duggan The problem of the nation-state in Italy: some long-term historical reflections S. 19-34

„… crisis in the public finances, the recurrent political scandals, and the succession of murky and often …” „… National identity and political culture 21 The problem of the nation-state in Italy: some …” „… between the longue durée and the intricate web political and economic crises of the 16th century, the …”

Jana Edelmann Berlusconia has never existed. On the powerlessness of Silvio Berlusconi as Italy’s Prime Minister S. 271-292

„… corruption scandals of Tangentopoli (roughly meaning city of bribery) discredited the entire political class …” „… personification of a strong and skilful political and party leader. Besides, his electoral success is outstanding …” „… it comes to a more detailed analysis of his political achievements as Italy’s prime minister, there …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-8

„… anticorruption: political scandals and electoral accountability in Italy 203 Alberto Vannucci Personalized …” „… Nomos Crisis as a Permanent Condition? The Italian Political System between Transition and Reform …” „… 08:55 The Italian Political System between Transition and Reform Resistance Crisis as a Permanent …”

James L. Newell The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), the PD and the current (and changing) state of the party system S. 237-270

„… scandal which broke in January4 and the general climate of popular disdain for the political class, the …” „… Personalized politics and political leadership 239 The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), the PD and the …” „… no viable governing combination. Neither of the political logics – the consensual or the …”

Carlo Carboni Dust of Italian stars S. 155-182

„… Political actors and elite structures 157 Dust of Italian stars Carlo Carboni The concept of …” „… imbued with cynicism and cutting across the political spectrum, typified by a bent for cultivating one’s …” „… shown the roots of anti-political attitudes in the historical period following Italian unification …”

Silvana Patriarca A Crisis of Italian Identity? The Northern League and Italy’s Renationalization Since the 1990s S. 61-78

„… call the renationalization of the political field. By this expression I mean that national identity …” „… has become again a central component of the political discourse and that nationalism - as an idiom …” „… margins of the Italian political spectrum. In this process the League, far from succeeding in radically …”

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Julia Dumin - South Korea after the 2017 Impeachment

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Series: Transformation, Development, and Regionalization in Greater Asia

Volume 16 2022

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Justine Guichard The Political Role of Courts in the Trials of South Korea’s 2016-2017 Impeachment Scandal S. 67-96

„… The Political Role of Courts in the Trials of South Korea’s 2016-2017 Impeachment Scandal …” „… impeachment scandal, starting with the de facto head of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, Lee to have been …” „… confirm the political role that courts can play as shapers of the democratic order. The Constitutional …”

Julia Dumin Introduction: Conceptualizing South Korea’s Impeachment Case in the Context of Democratization Theory S. 9-22

„… , impeachment processes often follow political scandals that can seriously undermine citizens’ trust in the …” „… , 1-20, p. 1.39 Rottinghaus, B. (2014). Surviving Scandal: The Institutional and Political Dynamics of …” „… National and State Executive Scandals. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47 (1), 131-140, p. 138.40 Mosler …”

Juliette Schwak Park Geun-hye’s Impeachment: Theorizing a Political Economic Revolt S. 97-124

„… Political Role of Courts in the Trials of South Korea’s 2016-2017 Impeachment Scandal. In Dumin, J. (Ed …” „… Park Geun-hye’s Impeachment:Theorizing a Political Economic RevoltJuliette SchwakIntroductionOn …” „… ) that accompanied Park’s impeachment process were sparked by a series of corruption scandals at the …”

Youngho Cho Who Raised a Candle and Why? Ascertaining Participation in the 2016-2017 Candlelight Protest in South Korea S. 125-156

„… South KoreaYoungho Cho IntroductionOver the last two decades, political scenes have been shifting “from …” „… protests to the political dysfunction of new democracies and authoritarian countries. However, the yellow …” „… late October 2016 to April 2017. With indignant reactions to scandals of President Park Geun-hye (Pak …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-8

„… Regionalization in Greater Asia is edited by Prof. Dr. Christoph SchuckDepartment of Philosophy and Political …” „… ScienceTU Dortmund University, GermanyMatthias Heise, M.A.Department of Philosophy and Political ScienceTU …” „… of TU Dortmund University and particularly to Prof. Christoph Schuck, Professor of Political Science …”

Hannes B. Mosler Changing South Korean Politics without Taking Power? The Presidential Power Trap Three Years after Impeachment S. 23-66

„… a new political system, for which they needed a substitute for what had been the king in England …” „… the contemporary political history of Korea, and internationally, too, represents a rare case of a …” „… popular in the public political discourse in the US during the 1960s; after he used it for the title of …”

Gabriel Jonsson South Korean Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from the 2017 Impeachment S. 157-176

„… Adam Przeworski (1991) writes:“Democracy is consolidated when under given political and economic …” „… institutions: “Compliance constitutes the equilibrium of the decentralized strategies of all relevant political …” „… , internalize, habituate, and legitimize democratic procedures and norms in political, social, economic …”

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Maximilian Eder - Politische Journalistinnen und Journalisten auf Twitter

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Politische Journalistinnen und Journalisten auf Twitter

Series: Nomos Universitätsschriften - Medien und Kommunikation

Volume 12 2023

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Literaturverzeichnis S. 295-372

„… ., Kantola, A., Pollack, E. & Blach-Ørsten, M. (2012). Increased scandalization:Nordic political scandals …” „… 1980-2010. In S. Allern & E. Pollack (Hrsg.), Scandalous!The mediated construction of political scandals in …” „… . Allern & E. Pollack (Hrsg.),Scandalous! The mediated construction of political scandals in four nordic …”

5 Skandal und Medienskandal S. 113-144

„… scandal as political; it provides the context forthe scandal and shapes its patterns of development …” „… schlägt von Sikorski (2018b) eineintegrative Definition vor:„Political scandals refer to real or …” „… media’s scandal umbrellaare large-scale corruption revelations, security scandals, sexual harassment,minor …”

1 Einleitung S. 19-26

„… networking platforms, and oneused extensively by media and political junkies” (Freelon, 2019, S. 2 …” „… , dass„the process by which a political scientist or communication scholaridentifies the catalogue of frames …” „… in a political discourse about a partic‐ular issue (frame discovery) is complex and labor-intensive …”

11 Fazit S. 273-294

„… Strukturen und Akteurskonstel‐lationen an einem bestimmten Ort und zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt:„Political …” „… and structural societal differences around the world influencehow scandals are launched, constructed …” „… political–ideological worldviews, polarized inter‐pretations and positions […] materialize more or less immediately …”

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