Reactivity, staged retreat and efficacy in blame avoidance: a comparative analysis of four political scandals
Building on blame avoidance analysis, this article develops a method to assess the reactivity, sequencing and efficacy of defensive responses by officeholders facing a crisis of personal blame, analysing cases drawn from four advanced democracies. It tests the hypotheses that officeholders: react by...
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Wiley
2015
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