The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades govern

From coping with Covid-19 through to manging climate change, from Brexit through to the barricading of Congress, from democratic disaffection to populist pressu

Analyses and compares political blame games in Western democracies to show how democratic political systems manage policy controversies.

With contributions from the world's leading scholars and emerging research leaders, this volume develops the theoretical, disciplinary, empirical, and normative

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