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Transformations in Governance

European Blame Games

Where does the buck stop?

Zangl, Prof Bernhard (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, LMU Munich) & Heinkelmann-Wild, Mr Tim (Chair of Global Governance and Public Policy and the Chair of International Relations, Chair of Global Governance and Public Policy and the Chair of International Relations, LMU Munich) & Kriegmair, Dr Lisa (Project Manager European & International Affairs, Project Manager European & International Affairs, City of Munich) & Rittberger, Prof Berthold (Professor of Global Governance and Public Policy, Professor of Global Governance and Public Policy, LMU Munich)

European Blame Games

Transformations in Governance

European Blame Games

Where does the buck stop?

Transformations in Governance: European Blame Games

 

European Blame Games challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse.


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Beschrijving Transformations in Governance: European Blame Games

Who is held responsible when EU policies fail? Which blame games resonate in the European public?

European Blame Games challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse. The book argues that the politicization of EU policies triggers a plausibility assessment of blame attributions in the public domain with the effect that European blame games gravitate towards true responsibilities, targeting those political actors involved in enacting a policy that is subsequently considered a policy failure.

It distinguishes three kinds of European blame games. In scapegoat games, supranational EU institutions are held responsible for a policy failure. Renegade games occur when individual member state governments are considered the culprits for a failed policy. When responsibility for a policy failure is shared between EU institutions and member states, diffusion games prevail. The book also explores three conditions to explain when each of the three European blame games prevails: the type of policy failure, the type of policy making, and the type of policy implementation. To empirically probe these conditions, European Blame Games studies the blame games in ten instances of EU policy failures, including EU foreign policy, environmental policy, fiscal stabilization, and migration policy.

Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars.

The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.


ISBN
9780192870636
Pagina's
192
Verschijnt
Serie
Transformations in Governance
Rubriek
Politicologie
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

Politicologie