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Scandals : media, politics & corruption in contemporary Australia

Author: Rodney Tiffen
Publisher: Sydney, Australia : UNSW Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rodney Tiffen
ISBN: 0868406015 9780868406015
OCLC Number: 42930737
Description: ix, 291 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Rodney Tiffen.
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