The politics of distributing blame and credit: Evidence from a survey experiment with Norwegian local politicians

• Published in: European journal of political research Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 599 - 620
• Main Authors: SCHÖNHAGE, NANNA LAURITZ, BÆKGAARD, MARTIN, GEYS, BENNY
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2024
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Attributes; Blame; Consensus; Credit; Elementary education; Games; Partisanship; performance information; political accountability; Political culture; Politicians; Polls & surveys; responsibility attribution; survey experiment

How do politicians attribute responsibility for good and poor policy outcomes across multiple stakeholders in a policy field where they themselves can affect service provision? Such ‘diffusion’ decisions are crucial to understand the political calculations underlying the allocation of blame and cred...