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Scandal as strategy and social form: The conditions, dynamics and paradoxes of French political corruption affairs.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Scandal as strategy and social form: The conditions, dynamics and paradoxes of French political corruption affairs./
Author:	Adut, Ari.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1139.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125575
ISBN:	0496728647

Scandal as strategy and social form: The conditions, dynamics and paradoxes of French political corruption affairs.
Adut, Ari.

Scandal as strategy and social form: The conditions, dynamics and paradoxes of French political corruption affairs. - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1139.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.

This dissertation develops a general phenomenology of scandal as the disruptive publicity of transgression. This model is then deployed to explain the structural conditions, strategic occasioning, temporal dynamics and consequences of political scandals. I concentrate on the French political corruption scandals which have escalated since the late nineteen-eighties but since this trend has been witnessed in Western world in general the dissertation formulates transnational arguments. While most journalistic and scholarly commentators on the upsurge of scandal activity in the West stress wrongdoing by political actors or media activism, the dissertation emphasizes the structural transformations which have both increased the likelihood of public allegations of wrongdoing by political actors and have rendered political actors vulnerable to such allegations. I analytically capture these transformations under the rubric of the desacralization of the political instance. In the French context, the main empirical manifestation of the desacralization of the political instance has been the decline of the traditional etatism. This decline in the nineties enabled the emergence of a scandal-mongering legal activism and judicial habitus more and more defined in opposition to the political elite. The dissertation hence also studies the use of political scandal as a norm entrepreneurship and status enhancement strategy by French legal officials as well as the unintended consequences of such strategizing. Scandals entail the exercise of popular justice and their logic is collectivistic and these two characteristics underlie the strategic recourse to scandal. Finally, the dissertation documents how scandal activity became the main locus of conflict within the French state apparatus and led to its institutional and ideological reorganization during the nineteen-nineties.

ISBN: 0496728647Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017425
Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Scandal as strategy and social form: The conditions, dynamics and paradoxes of French political corruption affairs.
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