In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are
commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This …

Modern politics is permeated by blame games—symbolic struggles over the
blameworthiness or otherwise of various social actors. In this article, we develop a …

Political scandals are highly relevant for political decision‐making and democratic
processes more generally. While most prior research employed experimental and cross …

The link between opinion and policy is central to the functioning of representative
democracy. Democracies are responsive to their citizens' preferences if citizens can …

How do frontline workers implement policy when it is politically contested and they face
strong pressure from politicians and the media? Based on original data and a multi‐method …

Scandals that hit political institutions and their actors are likely to contribute to lowering
political trust. However, few studies examine the accuracy of such relationship at the local …

This article studies the conditions required by populist radical right actors to convincingly
create a sense of crisis. The article draws on the literature on political blame games and …

This article proposes rethinking democratic conflict management by acknowledging the
increasingly important role policy plays in it. As the debate on the health of democracy …

Previous framing effects research has largely examined textual and visual influences
separately, thus neglecting potential interaction effects between the two communication …

This article investigates how organizational structure, collaboration, and professional
standards influence the resilience of public agencies facing adversity. It links organizational …