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Title: | No sex scandals please, we're French: French attitudes towards politicians' public and private conduct |
Authors: | Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K Allen, N Birch, S |
Keywords: | ‘Public' spheres;‘Private' spheres;Political misconduct;France |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Royal Holloway University of London, West European Politics |
Citation: | West European Politics, 37:5, 2014 |
Abstract: | The notion of distinct ‘public' and ‘private' spheres underpins much normative and practical engagement with political misconduct. What is less clear is whether citizens draw distinctions between misdemeanours in the 'public' and ‘private' spheres, and whether they judge these in systematically different ways. This paper explores attitudes to political misconduct in France. French citizens are often said to be particularly relaxed about politicians' private affairs, but there has been little empirical evidence for this proposition. Drawing on original survey data, this paper demonstrates clearly that French citizens draw a sharp distinction between politicians' public and private transgressions, and are more tolerant of the latter. |
URI: | http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/no-sex-scandals-please-were-french-french-attitudes-towards-politicians-public-and-private-conduct(3ec59a1d-a453-45a1-a4a8-986c55a0df22).html http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9774 |
ISSN: | 0140-2382 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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