The blame game spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analy...

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Hlavní autor: Hood, Christopher
Médium: E-kniha Kniha Publikace
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2010
Vydání:1
Témata:
Accountability
Admission (law)
Adviser
Attempt
BBC Radio
Blame
Blame > Political aspects
Bureaucracy
Bureaucrat
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
BUSINESS &amp
Calculation
Career
Civil society
Cost reduction
Credibility
Customer
Decision-making
Defensive medicine
Democracy
Design
Discretion
Ethos
European Union
Explanation
Fertilizer
Food safety
Freedom of speech
Good governance
Governance
Government
Government accountability
Health effect
Health minister
Hostility
Incumbent
Instance (computer science)
Institution
Jeremy Bentham
John Wanamaker
Legislature
Legitimacy
Literature
Management & Organizational Behavior
Misdemeanor
Mission statement
Monica Lewinsky
Negativity bias
Neutral country
New Departure (Democrats)
Obligation
Organization
Organizational Behavior
Organizational structure
Patriarchy
Persuasion
PHILOSOPHY
Police
Political aspects
Political influences
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
Politician
Politics
Politics of France
Press secretary
Privatization
Provision (accounting)
Public Affairs & Administration
Public opinion
Regime
Requirement
Result
Risk assessment
Salary
Service provider
Sociology
Soft law
Spin (propaganda)
Strategy
Tax
Technology
Third World
Trade-off
Treuhandanstalt
Trust
Type I and type II errors
Decision-making
Patriarchy
Obligation
Treuhandanstalt
Customer
Jeremy Bentham
Type I and type II errors
Explanation
Cost reduction
Legislature
Bureaucrat
Tax
Institution
Persuasion
Result
Design
Politician
Political science
Technology
Third World
Calculation
Soft law
Health minister
New Departure (Democrats)
Neutral country
Fertilizer
Ethos
Freedom of speech
Literature
Adviser
Admission (law)
Trade-off
Credibility
John Wanamaker
Discretion
Requirement
Privatization
Accountability
Mission statement
Democracy
Food safety
Negativity bias
Incumbent
Salary
BBC Radio
Organization
Provision (accounting)
Health effect
Misdemeanor
Press secretary
Attempt
Sociology
Risk assessment
Organizational structure
Hostility
Defensive medicine
Regime
Spin (propaganda)
Service provider
Monica Lewinsky
Good governance
Civil society
Governance
Police
Instance (computer science)
European Union
Politics of France
Strategy
Politics
Career
ISBN:9780691162126, 9781400836819, 0691162123, 1400836816, 9780691129952, 0691129959
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  • The blame game : spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part One: Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government -- Chapter One: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias -- Chapter Two: Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance -- Part Two: Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies -- Chapter Three: Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile -- Chapter Four: Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit? -- Chapter Five: Policy or Operational Strategies -- Chapter Six: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era? -- Part Three: Living in a World of Blame Avoidance -- Chapter Seven: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies -- Chapter Eight: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance -- Chapter Nine: The Last Word -- Notes -- References -- Index.
  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface CHAPTER ONE: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias CHAPTER TWO: Players in the Blame Game: CHAPTER THREE: Presentational Strategies: CHAPTER FOUR: Agency Strategies: CHAPTER FIVE: Policy or Operational Strategies CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: CHAPTER SEVEN: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies CHAPTER EIGHT: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance CHAPTER NINE: The Last Word Notes References Index
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance PART THREE: Living in a World of Blame Avoidance CHAPTER SEVEN: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era? CHAPTER FIVE: Policy or Operational Strategies CHAPTER FOUR: Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit? CHAPTER THREE: Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile PART TWO: Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies CHAPTER TWO: Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance PART ONE: Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government CHAPTER ONE: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias Contents List of Illustrations Preface Title Page, Copyright Page Cover Index Notes References CHAPTER NINE: The Last Word
  • Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- PART ONE: Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government -- CHAPTER ONE: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias -- CHAPTER TWO: Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance -- PART TWO: Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies -- CHAPTER THREE: Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit? -- CHAPTER FIVE: Policy or Operational Strategies -- CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era? -- PART THREE: Living in a World of Blame Avoidance -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance -- CHAPTER NINE: The Last Word -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
  • Chapter 6. The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era?
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter 5. Policy or Operational Strategies
  • Index
  • Chapter 2. Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance
  • Part III. Living in a World of Blame Avoidance --
  • Chapter 9. The Last Word
  • Chapter 4. Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit?
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  • Contents
  • PART II. Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies --
  • Chapter 8. Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance
  • References
  • Frontmatter --
  • Chapter 3. Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile
  • Preface
  • PART I. Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government --
  • Chapter 7. Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1. Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias