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  • 6 - Mapping the Influence of Institutional Factors

  • Markus Hinterleitner, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
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    12 November 2020, pp 139-144
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    This chapter analyzes and compares the effects of institutional factors on blame game interactions. This chapter reveals how institutional factors – ranging from hard-wired formal institutions to conventions and policy characteristics – provide political incumbents with blame shields and political opponents with blame gateways, thereby channeling their behavior in certain directions. Institutions determine the routinized ways in which democratic political systems manage, or ‘digest’, their policy conflicts.

  • 9 - Blame Games and Their Implications for Politics and Democracy under Pressure

  • Markus Hinterleitner, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
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    30 October 2020
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    12 November 2020, pp 185-205
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    This chapter begins by summarizing the results derived from the empirical analysis. It then assesses the explanatory potential of the framework with regard to other types of political controversies like personal scandals or natural disasters, and discusses the generalizability of the results across space and time. After considering avenues for future research on blame games, the chapter extracts a number of insights from the study of blame games that help to improve our understanding of politics and democracy under pressure.