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Over the past thirty years, American taxpayers have seen multiple Department of Defense (DoD) procurement scandals brought to light. Of these historic scandals, some of the most egregious examples include: the spare parts scandal that emerged in the early to mid-1980s, which int…

This thesis studies a period of historical transition (1945-1950) and proposes to use scandal as a critical tool to account for the ambiguity of the immediate post-war period in literature. As set out in pragmatic sociology, scandal is understood to involve a test to the stabili…

The dissertation examines the words and actions district superintendents used to lead an educational system through a culture shift following the occurrence of a scandalous critical incident. This qualitative study deeply investigated the specific words and actions as offered by…