Political Scandal: Power and Visability in the Media Age

The first attempt to develop a systematic analysis of political scandal, drawing on comparative and historical materialWide-ranging and up-to-date, it covers most of the major political scandals in Britain and the United States, from Profumo to the cash for questions scandal, from Watergate to Whitewater and the Clinton-Lewinsky affairDevelops an original theory about the nature and consequences of political scandal