Research Catalog

Title

Scandals : media, politics & corruption in contemporary Australia / Rodney Tiffen.

Author

Tiffen, Rodney

Publication

Sydney, Australia : UNSW Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

ix, 291 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Tiffen uses case studies of Australia's major political scandals to show why someissues become scandals but others don't, how scandals are brought to light, how politicians, parliament, the courts and the media interact as scandals unfold, what scandals tell us about our political culture.

Subject

• Since 1945
• Political corruption > Australia
• Scandals > Australia
• Scandals in mass media > Australia
• Scandals > Press coverage > Australia
• Scandals in mass media
• Australia > Politics and government > 1945-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-281) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Public Careers of Scandals -- Origins and Emergence -- The incidence versus the visibility of corruption -- Circles of secrecy, channels of disclosure -- Uncertain beginnings -- The Growth of Scandals: Supply and Demand -- Continuing supply: Political prosecution -- Continuing but constrained supply: Official proceedings -- Continuing demand: Newsworthiness -- Snowballing Scandals -- Three-sided conflicts -- Backstage behaviour -- Hyper-demand: Feeding frenzies -- Avalanche: Rampant Royal Commissions -- Scandals as Politics -- Prosecution and Defence: Conflicting Interests in Scandals -- Dilemmas of defence -- Strategies of containment and counter-attack -- Strategies of prosecution -- Deepening Mires: The Development of Secondary Themes -- Duplicity -- The politics of procedures and penalties -- Evolving agendas -- Consequences -- Personal -- Partisan -- Policy -- Lapdog, Watchdog, Wolf: The Media's Role in Scandals -- The watchdog ideal -- The muzzled watchdog -- Lapdog -- Wolf -- The yapping pack -- Scandals, Corruption and Democracy.

ISBN

0868406015

LCCN

^^^00340466^

OCLC

• 42930737
• SCSB-10118307

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library