This is an investigation of the electorate's response to presidential scandal. It seeks to illuminate how citizens with various attributes respond to news of presidential impropriety, exploring the extent to which and the conditions under which presidential involvement in scanda…
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This dissertation explores evidence and provides insight to secrecy-related information actions that can and are sometimes used as a method to circumvent established government policy and law. These information actions may also be used to cover up such circumventions after the f…
This dissertation undertakes a comparative historical analysis of two key American political crises, analyzing how and why media coverage affects perceptions and outcomes when state legitimacy is challenged by presidential abuse of power. In the first crisis, President Richard N…
Both the Watergate break-in of the early 1970s and the Iran-Contra affair of the late 1980s created enormous political controversy. In both instances, one of the main responses to the situation was the creation of select congressional committees to investigate the alleged wrongd…