Abstract
ABSTRACTNew Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of the perceived least corrupt country in the world, according to such measures as Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index? This necessarily impressionistic study examines the role of the media and the public presentation of specific ‘corruption’ scandals on the potentially changing receptivity of the New Zealand public to such scandals, with a view to clarifying the starting point of this complex relationship between public perceptions and political behaviour.
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