Assessing the Impact of Communications Strategy and Ethical Positioning on the Resilience of a Political Career Facing Scandal: Critical Analysis of Sexual Scandals within American Politics

Fisiak, Marta

dc.contributor.author	Fisiak, Marta	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-23T15:55:26Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-23T15:55:26Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-03	en
dc.identifier.issn	1641-4233	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26664
dc.description.abstract	Throughout the evolution of public political discourse we have repeatedly seen the effects of scandals on the careers of many politicians. Although the cultural and societal norms that have traditionally dictated the results of such scandals have changed dramatically within the last two centuries, I believe that the aftermath of these scandals may be better understood by analyzing and comparing the politician’s previously established public image to the scandal at hand. I will argue that a negative impact only occurs if and when there is a clear contradiction of character that presents the politician as a deceitful or hypocritical person in the media sphere and therefore the eyes of the public	en
dc.publisher	Lodz University Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal;22	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en
dc.subject	scandal	en
dc.subject	sex	en
dc.subject	politics	en
dc.subject	media	en
dc.subject	power	en
dc.title	Assessing the Impact of Communications Strategy and Ethical Positioning on the Resilience of a Political Career Facing Scandal: Critical Analysis of Sexual Scandals within American Politics	en
dc.page.number	169-182	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2300-8695
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	marta_fisiak@wp.pl	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/1641-4233.22.11	en

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