01213nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100004000041245008300081260001800164300003200182520087100214773001801085240903b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMcGrath, Paul and  Marshall, Donna   aTribunals of inquiry as instruments of legitimacy: A ritualization perspective  aOrganization   a31(4), May, 2024: p.603-623  aThis paper is an exploratory qualitative study into how tribunals of inquiry act as instruments of legitimacy and hegemony for the State. Focusing on a case study of two consecutive tribunals of inquiry into the biggest health scandal in the history of the Irish State, the paper draws on ritual theory to offer a view of the tribunal as a process of ritualization, a strategic way of acting by the State in times of crisis. Through this process of ritualization, an authoritative, structured and structuring ritualized environment is created with schemes of ritualization imposed on participants directed toward creating ritualized bodies, hoped-for acceptance of the tribunal’s projection of reality and the re-legitimation of the role of the State in undertaking its core functions.- Reproduced 

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