Hood The Blame Game

Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3681-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hood, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Preface ix

Part One: Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government

Chapter One: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias 3

Chapter Two: Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance 24

Part Two: Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies

Chapter Three: Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profi le 47

Chapter Four: Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit? 67

Chapter Five: Policy or Operational Strategies 90

Chapter Six: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Tefl on Era? 112

Part Three: Living in a World of Blame Avoidance

Chapter Seven: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies 135

Chapter Eight: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance 157

Chapter Nine: The Last Word 181

Notes 187

References 201

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Hood is the Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford. His books include The Limits of Administration, The Tools of Government, and The Art of the State.