Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games

Markus Hinterleitner

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Markus Hinterleitner, Brown University, Rhode Island

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781108860116
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860116
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy

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In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place they deserve in the study of politics and public policy. Blame games are microcosms of conflictual politics that yield unique insights into democracies under pressure. Based on an original framework and the comparison of fifteen blame games in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and the US, it exposes the institutionalized forms of conflict management that democracies have developed to manage policy controversies. Whether failed infrastructure projects, food scandals, security issues, or flawed policy reforms, democracies manage policy controversies in an idiosyncratic manner. This book is addressed not only to researchers and students interested in political conflict in the fields of political science, public policy, public administration, and political communication, but to everyone concerned about the functioning of democracy in more conflictual times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy - Series page
pp ii-iv

Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures
pp ix-ix

Tables
pp x-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

1 - How Political Systems Manage Their Policy Controversies
pp 1-17

2 - Blame Games in the Political Sphere
pp 18-39

3 - Blame Games in the UK
pp 40-72

4 - Blame Games in Germany
pp 73-107

5 - Blame Games in Switzerland
pp 108-138

6 - Mapping the Influence of Institutional Factors
pp 139-144

7 - Mapping the Influence of Issue Characteristics
pp 145-175

8 - A Typological Theory of Blame Games and Their Consequences
pp 176-184

9 - Blame Games and Their Implications for Politics and Democracy under Pressure
pp 185-205

Appendix
pp 206-216

Notes
pp 217-233

References
pp 234-244

Index
pp 245-248

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