POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sexting, Rob Ford
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Image management: looking at ways that political elites foster a certain image: what happens when events transpire when attacks on politicians when a certain event happens. They use image repair techniques, blame avoidance. Making it seem not as bad as they really are. Nature of political scandals: scandal: some kind of behavior/action that is considered offensive and needs to have some aspect of media coverage not a scandal if people don"t know about it. The politician itself is scandalized: 2 types of scandals: Traditional: some type of abuse of power, maladministration (ex: Richard nixon was using a spy system to spy on his people, and this was actually supposed to be used to enemies, etc. that was an abuse of power) Economic scandals: corporate, not as important right now. Also, scandals of the first degree and scandals of the second degree. First degree: so bad that it causes political damage (like.
