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  • 7 - Mapping the Influence of Issue Characteristics

  • Markus Hinterleitner, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    12 November 2020, pp 145-175
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  • Summary

    This chapter examines and compares the effects of issue characteristics on the nine blame games examined in Chapters 3-5 and consults three additional test cases in the USA in order to corroborate and refine the findings. The chapter demonstrates how issue characteristics – namely the salience of a policy controversy and its proximity to average publics – influence the content of blame game interactions. Issue characteristics influence how political opponents signal the severity of a policy controversy to the public, how they can try to put incumbents under pressure, and how incumbents seek to manage blame for the controversy. This chapter clarifies what is meant by blame games being played out in front of an ‘audience’, and it shows how politicians work with issue characteristics to pull the audience onto their side.