A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

Blame avoidance behaviour (BAB) has become an increasingly popular topic in political
science. However, the preconditions of BAB, its presence and consequences in various …

This article takes stock of and reviews the comparative literature on blame avoidance
strategies in social policy reform to identify the conditions under which blame avoidance …

Blame avoidance behavior (BAB) encompasses all kinds of integrity-protecting activities by
officeholders in the face of potentially blame-attracting events. Although considered …

The European debt crisis has uncovered serious tension between democratic politics and
market pressure in contemporary democracies. This tension arises when governments …

Economic crisis and the resulting need for austerity budgets have divided many governing
parties and coalitions in Europe despite strong party discipline in the legislative voting on …

While the idea that policy-makers are motivated by the desire to earn “credit” for their work
has a long history, policy studies since Weaver (J Public Policy 6 (4): 371–398, 1986) have …

Policymakers often engage in blame avoidance behaviour that affects the ways in which
they structure their organisations, adopt policies and operating routines, and present their …

Policy scholars tend to view disproportionate policy and its two component concepts–policy
over-and underreaction–as either unintentional errors of commission or omission, or …

The article contributes to the growing literature on framing of deservingness as an
alternative to 'blame avoidance'strategies in the politics of welfare retrenchment. In …