01299nam a22001457a 4500 527525 527525 240903b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d McGrath, Paul and Marshall, Donna 57777 Tribunals of inquiry as instruments of legitimacy: A ritualization perspective Organization 31(4), May, 2024: p.603-623 This 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 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13505084221145578 Organization TRIBUNALS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 402612 IIPA IIPA 2024-09-03 31(4), May, 2024: p.603-623 AR132966 2024-09-03 AR