Passing the buck? Responsibility attribution and cognitive bias in multilevel democracies

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ID6406536
AuthorsSandra León (0000-0002-4268-0302, University of York, corresponding author), Ignacio Jurado (0000-0003-2439-3817, University of York), Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga (0000-0003-2756-292X, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Spain)
Year2018
Volume41
Issue3
Pages660-682
Publication date2018-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402382.2017.1405325
OpenAlexW2783603368
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited52

This paper explores the effect of national partisanship and Euroscepticism on \nindividuals’ causal responsibility attribution in European multilevel democracies. \nIt is particularly focused on the average differences in responsibility attribution \nin federal and non-federal states, as well as in countries belonging to different \nEuropean Union enlargement waves. Using a pooled dataset of the 2004, 2009, and \n2014 European Election Studies, results show that when poor economic outcomes \nare at stake, partisans of the national incumbent in federal states are more likely to \nassign responsibility to regional governments following a blame-attribution logic, \nwhile this logic is absent in non-federal states. Likewise, Eurosceptic individuals \nare more likely to assign responsibility to European authorities when they hold \nnegative views of the economy and they belong to countries that have been \nEuropean Union members for a longer period

Attribution · Blame · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Resizing · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Systems and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology

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