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	Presidential Scandals and Job Approval
		Whether researchers are policy analysts, political scientists, economists, sociologists or engineers, they may wish to assess the effect of a discrete event or intervention on some measure of a process.
		The Watergate scandal is one of the greatest political scandals in American political history.
		To develop a theory of political scandals, other scandals -- such as the hostage seizure during the Carter administration, the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, and the current Lewinsky affair and impeachment trial -- would have to be examined.
	www.nyu.edu /its/socsci/Docs/scandals.html (2625 words)

	How Mass Media Simulate Political Transparency
		Journalists, in turn, have adapted the rhetoric of political transparency to defend their emerging investigative practices, to rationalise greater sexual frankness in reporting of news stories, and to justify their sense of greater entitlement to investigate and report on the private lives of public officials, including their infidelities, their sexual orientations, and their sexual habits.
		Although scandals are to some degree inherently interesting to audiences, the events of the scandal must be assessed and approached from many different angles in order to sustain viewer interest.
		His political style – which is also his personal style – actively invites discussion of his character because so much of his appeal comes from his personality and his apparent emotional closeness to the voting public.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/media01.htm (8041 words)

	Political scandal
		A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians engage in various illegal or unethical practices.
		A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws, including the rules of the constitution or creating a plot or conspiracy to do so.
		Sex scandals often occur within the ranks of politicians, but these are different than political scandals as they rarely directly affect political operation.
	www.fastload.org /po/Political_scandal.html (317 words)

	Scandals for dummies
		Then, too, when a mass of scandals all seem to be happening at once, the veneer of invulnerability around an administration is removed.
		It's Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and their crews who got themselves into this huge mess, through their greed, lust for power, secretiveness, obstinacy, arrogance, and conviction that they are holy warriors in a divine crusade against those who don't believe exactly as they do.
		Most of Cheney's scandals seem to involve energy -- the way Enron manipulated the California energy crisis, for example, with Cheney on the inside making sure Enron had free rein -- and his ultra-secret energy policy panel, which may have helped create the takeover of the Iraq oil fields.
	www.crisispapers.org /essays/dummies-scandals.htm (2113 words)

	Accounting Scandals: The Bottom Line
		They trace the scandals to the deregulation campaign the Reagan administration waged in the 1980s and a Republican congress pursued in the 1990s.
		And the "suits" it targeted were the infamous "greenmail" ones, in which an individual would buy a large number of shares in a company, then threaten to lodge costly nuisance litigation unless the company agreed to repurchase his shares at an exorbitant price.
		In fact, these scandals were spawned by two larger societal trends.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed071202.cfm (737 words)

	Perspective: Game of American politics
		A former writer for Rolling Stone, his political and social views are decidedly liberal, and he unabashedly rails against Republicans as hateful elitists.
		But there is a key difference between the scandals of the 18th century and Clinton's 20th century debacle, at least as they're depicted in these works.
		Back then, Scandalmonger asserts, some men were willing to sacrifice their personal character and political ambitions for the good of the government and their reputations as public servants.
	www.sptimes.com /News/080600/Perspective/Game_of_American_poli.shtml (851 words)

	Political Scandals \| Progressive U
		One week it's oh this guy has admitted to talking sexually to pages in the page program, 3 years ago, and the next everyone is like, 'Oh yeah, we so suspected that', well, if people knew about it when it was first happening they should have said something then, not now.
		Supposedly one of the canidates was walking an intoxicated women to her car one night, as a good deed he said, and now she is claiming that he sexually assulted her.
		Uncovering scandals right before elections seems to be about as low as you can go in order for another candidate to win.
	www.progressiveu.org /000717-political-scandals (397 words)

	Political prisoners in the United States: prosecuting government agents and private citizens who discover government ...
		But instead of imprisoning these government agents and citizens for their political belief, they have become prisoners so as to silence their exposing of criminal activities by people holding key government positions.
		Because of these felony retaliation charges and offenses, the American people are kept uninformed of the criminal and subversive acts perpetrated against them, causing them to continue suffering the great harm that accompanies the various criminal activities detailed and documented in the author's two books.
		After Coleman gave a sworn affidavit into the Pan American litigation, which showed that the CIA and DEA drug operation made possible the placement of the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, the Justice Department gang started their usual sham charges, falsely charging Coleman with a passport violation.
	www.voxfux.com /features/americanpoliticalprisoners.html (1886 words)

	POLS Y100 3267 American Political Controversies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Politics is more than episodic scandals and chronic corruption, and more than conflicts between contending interest groups and parties.
		In American politics, much of what underlies the day-to-day machinations of politicians are fundamental debates about the ends to which power should be put, the religious and social values that should influence public policies, the extent to which equality should be embodied in social and economic life, and tradeoffs between social order and individual liberty.
		The only prerequisite is a curiosity about politics, a willingness to examine your own views, and to engage with others in some discussions about politics.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr99/pols/pols_y100_3267.html (286 words)

	ABOUT THE AUTHOR
		Educated at Colgate, the University of Edinburgh and Harvard Law School, Phillips, at age 27, had served as the chief elections and voting patterns analyst for the 1968 Nixon campaign.
		American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
		But in 1997, disgusted with how Washington politics had sunk to herald Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush, Phillips left the capital for his country house in Connecticut, and returned to his youthful focus on history.
	www.americantheocracy.net /about.html (751 words)

	Campaign Finance Reform: Part II. Taking Action
		The solution to all great American political scandals is to appoint a House or Senate committee to conduct inquiries.
		Such broad rules of inquiry applied by the party that controlled both houses of Congress virtually ensured that this round of Clinton scandals would pass with as few consequences or long term concern as the scandals of the first Clinton administration received.
		Political parties are required to submit regular reports of their campaign expenditure.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/international_trade_politics/90847 (437 words)

	Top Political Sites - Home - Choose a Political Persuasion
		Commentary on political issues and popular culture from a socially liberal perspective--concentrating on individual liberty, separationof church and state, and restoring limitations on the power of government.
		Political Crossfire Forums is a Political discussion forum to discuss and debate political, cultural and social issues.
		This blog is devoted to researching, analyzing and commenting on political, economic and societal issues and news relative to liberty.
	toppoliticalsites.org (1868 words)

	Political scandals of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another approach might be to categorize American political scandals by the nature of the alleged wrongdoing (separating "private immorality" scandals, where possible, from graft, bribery, and other abuse of the public trust; or separating misconduct that led to criminal indictment, from non-criminal matters).
		An example of this might be the Tailhook scandal, which was generally regarded as a military, rather than a political scandal.
		One of the most famous examples of an official investigation itself being perceived as scandalous was the Joseph McCarthy anti-communist investigation of the 1950's, which came to be widely viewed as an abusive witchhunt that violated civil liberties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States (5568 words)

	The meaning of political scandals
		But if the history of Washington scandals teaches us anything, it’s that it’s easier to disgrace an individual than to change the system that gave rise their scandalous behavior.
		This is the way it works in a political system run by an establishment that controls two political parties differing mainly on the margins.
		Instead, a scandal that implicates a handful of corrupt individuals allows the system to blame them--while allowing the same policies, or slightly modified versions of them, to continue under new management.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/562/562_07_Scandals.shtml (678 words)

	The Rise of American Fascism
		In some respects American fascism could be considered "benevolent fascism." The rise of fascism in America was a multi-faceted process that took place over time, and was really a part of a larger trend in the 20th century that included other nations as well.
		Americans did rally around the Spanish-America War to a degree, but there was also a large and loud segment of anti-war protestors during that war as well.
		Americans were taking much of the credit for winning the war as well, yet the Europeans had been in the war since 1914.
	www.rationalrevolution.net /articles/rise_of_american_fascism.htm (15561 words)

	George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism - Project for the OLD American Century
		White House and the RNC are going to make a habit of using uniformed military personnel as props at Republican political rallies, despite the fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning politicization of the armed forces.
		Bush Aides ADMIT 'stoking fear' for political gain: Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race.
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	www.oldamericancentury.org /14pts.htm (2890 words)

	Sex Scandals and the American Presidency
		Since national surveys reveal that far more than the majority of the American electorate rely primarily on television for their news and information, voting season finds us more confused in our decision-making than perhaps ever was true in the past.
		The American public's love affair with television has hastened the decline of majority rule in the United States.
		Purportedly, the ratings showed that Americans had developed cultural communities by forming majorities who shared the experience of watching the same entertainment shows, the same evening news programs, or by coming together to watch the first step of an American astronaut on the Moon.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/towncry/voting.html (808 words)

	The Clintongate Administration
		Along with the Lewinsky scandal comes evidence that she was instructed how to hide the affair by Clinton and offered a job by Vernon Jordan - as an "incentive" to remain quiet.
		The Rich pardon appears to be a political pay off and, though the president may constitutionally pardon anyone, it appears he abused his authority in a quid pro quo pardon in exchange for political donations.
		Amidst the scandals, it was discovered that Hillary Clinton hired a "psychic" and attempted to "talk" with Eleanor Roosevelt.
	members.tripod.com /~GOPcapitalist/clinton-scandals.html (4631 words)

	Center For Political Accountability
		Two thirds (66%) of directors said that recent corporate scandals involving political activities have “damaged the public’s confidence and trust in corporate America.” A similar majority (60%) agreed that reforms were necessary to “protect companies from risk,” according to the poll.
		It identifies 18 public companies whose trade association payments and political contributions underwrote, directly or indirectly, political activity in 2004 on behalf of a group of judicial candidates with strong stands on controversial social issues that companies traditionally have avoided.
		To guard against those risks, corporate political activity should be transparent to shareholders and the line of accountability clearly drawn.
	www.politicalaccountability.net (1209 words)

	The Second Term Curse - Justin Darr (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whether the Republicans’ motivation was one of trying to prevent a de facto “American aristocracy” where Presidents would rule for life, or merely an attempt to break the Democratic Party’s domination of the political landscape is a subject of debate to this day.
		In short, most of these scandals, and their subsequent political turmoil would either not have occurred, or been of drastically smaller in proportion, if these second term Presidents had the option of seeking reelection.
		The absence of the political consequences of attacking a popular leader has created an environment in Washington of scandal mongering where anything, no matter how small or large, is seen as an opportunity by opposition parties to do what they could not do at the polls; stop the agendas of popular Presidents.
	www.americandaily.com /article/9954 (1323 words)

	The Political Mobilization of the New Christian Right by Bryan Le Beau (Part 1)
		In the political realm, so the story goes, the Christian Right was driven into Republican ranks by concern over various social problems, contributing in a major way to conservative dominance of the White House, the Senate, and, most significantly, the national agenda.
		With sexual and financial scandals plaguing some media-based ministries, the Democratic recapture of the Senate, the failure of Pat Robertson's 1988 presidential campaign, and the decision to disband conservative organizations like Moral Majority, it was time, many thought, to write an epitaph for the New Christian Right (D'Antonio 1989).
		Attempting to resist the encroachments of secularism in the political realm, they concentrated in the 1920s on a pair of causes: campaigns to restrict the sale of intoxicating liquor and to prohibit the teaching of evolution in the public schools.
	are.as.wvu.edu /lebeau1.htm (2558 words)

	Grey House Publishing: Political Corruption in America
		The complete scandal-filled history of American political corruption, focusing on the infamous people and cases, as well as society's electoral and judicial reactions.
		A full range of illustrations including political cartoons, photos of key figures such as Abe Fortas and Archibald Cox, graphs of presidential pardons, and tables showing the number of expulsions and censures in both the House and Senate round out the text.
		With its comprehensive coverage of this interesting topic, Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed will prove to be a useful addition to the reference collections of all public libraries, university libraries, history collections, political science collections and high schools.
	www.greyhouse.com /corruption.htm (477 words)

	scandals - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Political Scandals \| NewsBusters.org
		He was the chief political correspondent for the lefty Salon.com.
		It should surprise no one that the media are more interested in the Foley scandal than the American public is. Even the "coverup," the media fallback point if the actual scandal isn't salacious enough, does not outrage Americans as much as it outrages media figures who denounce the Republican leadership.
		Only about a quarter of Americans say the scandal over former Rep. Mark Foley will be "extremely important" in how they vote in November's congressional elections, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/253 (5193 words)

	The American Empire Project
		Since the tragic events of September 11 and the commencement of the "war on terror," the relationship between U.S. policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil has come under close scrutiny.
		So argues Walden Bello in his provocative new book, which systematically dissects the strategic, economic, and political dilemmas confronting America as a consequence of its quest for global domination.
		From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.
	www.americanempireproject.com /booklist.asp (684 words)

	Behind Washington’s political scandals
		However far this scandal goes, it is the result of a loose and shifting coalescence of various forces within the capitalist class and the political establishment.
		Beyond the specific political forces at play, Bush and the right-wing Republicans running Congress are so drunk with power that they have begun to antagonize important sections of the corporate ruling class.
		Abramoff’s firm and Americans for Tax Reform, founded by Grover Norquist, a national Republican strategist with close ties to the White House, gave $4 million to Ralph Reed, founder of the Christian Coalition, who managed Bush’s Southern presidential election campaign and also has close ties to the White House.
	www.workers.org /2005/us/scandals-1013 (1820 words)

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