[ecrea] IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Political Scandals

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on
Political Scandals
 This Special Section on “Political Scandals as a Democratic Challenge”
brings together seven original papers (plus an editorial introduction) on
current international research in the area of political scandals. The
complexity of these processes underlines the need for critical,
interdisciplinary research, and this Special Section includes a systematic
review of research examining the various effects of political scandals, and
a paper analyzing the psychological reactions of politicians involved in
scandals.                          The Section focuses on the primary 
question: What are the roles–and
effects–of mediated political scandals on democratic processes?  A 
central topic in several of the articles is the contradictory status of
journalism as an important “watchdog” institution, holding political
leaders to account, and media institutions as a “scandal machine” that
ignores serious political misdeeds and inflates the importance of trivial
norm violations. Other papers discuss how politicians and power holders may
provoke and use staged mediated scandals in order to influence the public
agenda and smear competitors. The complexity of such scandalization
processes underlines the need of critical, interdisciplinary research, and
this Special Section includes a systematic review of research examining the
various effects of political scandals and a paper analyzing the
psychological reactions of politicians involved in scandals.  We invite 
you to read these eight articles that just published in the
International Journal of Communication on August 6, 2018 at ijoc.org.
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 Political Scandals as a Democratic Challenge: From Important 
Revelations to
Provocations, Trivialities, and Neglect. Introduction
Sigurd Allern, Christian von Sikorski
 Blunders, Scandals, and Strategic Communication in U.S. Foreign Policy:
Benghazi vs. 9/11 Robert Entman, Sarah Stonbely
 Political Scandals Under Responsive Authoritarianism: The Case of the Bo
Xilai Trial in China
Francis L. F. Lee

“Assassination Campaigns”: Corruption Scandals and News Media
Instrumentation Paolo Mancini
 The New Normal: Scandals as a Standard Feature of Political Life in Nordic
Countries Ester Pollack, Sigurd Allern, Anu Kantola, Mark Ørsten
 The Aftermath of Political Scandals: A Meta-Analysis
Christian von Sikorski
 Powerful and Powerless: Psychological Reactions of Norwegian Politicians
Exposed in Media Scandals
Kim Edgar Karlsen, Fanny Duckert
 Hidden Traps: An Essay on Scandals — Commentary
Hans Mathias Kepplinger

____________________________________________________________
     Larry Gross
Editor
Arlene Luck Managing Editor             Sigurd Allern, Christian von 
Sikorski
Guest Editors
___________________________________________________
International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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