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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Scandal"”.
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Presidential-Legislative Relations and Presidential Scandal
… analyze whether or not modern presidential scandal can impact presidential-congressional relations. Meinke and Anderson (2001) find that presidential scandal impacts House of Representatives voting behavior on key votes cited by Congressional Quarterly. A slight revision and replication of …
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …
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A Rhetorical Approach to Greek Life Scandal
… become a better critic and consumer of news and scandals we encounter in media. In the following, there will be a review of the literature in the field of communication studies to outline the previous research that informs my analysis. Afterwards, a rhetorical analysis will be provided. Applying …
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Contemporary British Literary Culture, Higher Education, and the Diversity Scandal
Sociologists have demonstrated that neoliberal British education policies reproduce cultural and racial homogeneity in creative industries workforces. These policies have made fine art and design programs key pathways to work in the creative economy. Yet escalating tuition and the reliance on …
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Media Framing of the Steroids Scandal in Major League Baseball
… personalization of media coverage of the steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. Research guided by framing theory found 2,353 frames present in the initial analysis and 2,834 frames present after the post hoc analysis. Generic frames were more prevalent than issue-specific frames in coverage in …
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Parnell and Kitty O'Shea: A Study of Scandal in Victorian Politics
The decision to investigate the life of Charles Stewart Parnell was begun with some hesitation as abundant biographical material already existed. However, a study of these accounts soon made it evident that much of Parnell's life had never been told in anything approaching an objective manner. …
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Gubernatorial Girlfriends: An Analysis of News Media Frames of Political Scandal
… days of the American republic, political sex scandals have been a part of the political discourse. Despite the passing of several hundred years, much discussion is still given to political sex scandals by the popular media. Little attention, however, is paid to research into the relationship …
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
… and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral reformers seized upon the scandal to decry the decline of “traditional” moral values taking place throughout American …
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Case study of the conglomerate bankruptcy scandal in Taiwan (The Rebar Group)
In Taiwan, big companies are basically family-owned enterprises. They begin with a primary industry or a secondary manufacturing industry, and then reach out to a tertiary sector, providing services in various industries. Family businesses use cross-shareholding and affiliation to legally solidify …
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When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness
… official or what became known as the Cotton Scandal as a typical example of Brezhnev-era corruption does not answer several important questions: was the scandal inevitable, what motivated Rashidov to engage in falsifying cotton reports, how did the exposure of the scandal impact how other …
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Contextualizing a Crisis: Examining Michigan State University Press Releases and the Larry Nassar Scandal
… by Michigan State University following a 2016 scandal that accused long-term physician Larry Nassar of sexually abusing more than 250 young women and girls under the guise of medical care. Specifically, the researcher was concerned with the image repair strategies employed by Michigan State as …
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A Game That Cannot Be Won: Media Framing of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal
… topics for the media to cover. They covered the scandal extensively and made it a prevalent subject story matter from April 2006 to April 2007. Utilizing a content analysis, this study coded for generic, macro and issue-specific frames used by six different newspapers that covered the Duke …
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The Intersection Of Image, Rhetoric, And Witnessing: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal
… project looks at the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal and the ways those figured in the notorious images were named as "bad apples" to explain the shocking scenes to a mainstream American collective as well as expands more traditional understandings of witnessing through the examination of this …
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
… of the office in the period from the Watergate scandal of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will evaluate the role of the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of alleged executive wrongdoing and analyse changing trends in political, judicial, media and …
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The (Re)Construction of the Organizational Identity of the Canadian Armed Forces Post Institutional Scandal of 2021
… have been affected after these institutional scandals. The project builds upon existing literature both in terms of military identity and organizational identity of the CAF and adds to the literature on how the military organization reacts to sexual misconduct more broadly. The research draws …
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THE EFFECTS OF SUCCESSOR CEO’S ORIGIN ON AUDITORS’ CLIENT RISK ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUANCE DECISIONS FOLLOWING A CORPORATE SCANDAL
… and audit effort decisions following a major scandal in a client firm. 83 experienced audit professionals drawn from U.S. public accounting firms participated in a 2 x 2 experiment with the CEO succession triggering event (clients’ ethical or operational failure) and successor-CEO origin …
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF US COLLEGE ATHLETIC SCANDALS IN TRADITIONAL NEWS MEDIA AND MEDIATED COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE COLLEGE
… about the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Scandal of 2011. The author examines the different ways in which Pennsylvania State University administrators and officials communicated the scandal internally to their community (campus community and surrounding city community) and compared it to …
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Scandalising the NHS- the construction of healthcare and deviance in the BBC and ITV coverage of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal
… at Ten covered the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal between 17 March 2009 and 17 March 2014. The analysis focuses on the construction of healthcare and deviance in TV health news storytelling, and the institutional and individual social actors involved in the process. The failings themselves …
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