Brandon Rottinghaus

The Institutional Effects of Executive Scandals

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the role of executive scandals in the contemporary American political landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781107102972
• ISBN-10: 1107102979
• Artikelnr.: 42025774

Autorenporträt

Brandon Rottinghaus is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Senator Don Henderson Scholar at the University of Houston. Professor Rottinghaus is the co-founder of the Presidential Proclamations Project, an online resource documenting presidential use of unilateral powers through executive proclamation. His most recent book is The Provisional Pulpit: Modern Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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.