The blame game: spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government
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1. Verfasser: Hood, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index
Blame, credit, and trust in executive government -- Credit claiming, blame avoidance, and negativity bias -- Players in the blame game : inside the world of blame avoidance -- Avoiding blame : three basic strategies -- Presentational strategies : winning the argument, drawing a line, changing the subject, and keeping a low profile -- Agency strategies : direct or delegate, choose or inherit? -- Policy or operational strategies -- The institutional dynamics of blameworld : a new teflon era? -- Living in a world of blame avoidance -- Mixing and matching blame-avoidance strategies -- Democracy, good governance, and blame-avoidance -- The last word
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines diffe
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