Blame Avoidance: The Costs of Weak Accountability in a Health Disaster

Fernandes, Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes; Fernandes, Gustavo Almeida Lopes; Fernandes, Guilherme; Salvador, Pedro Ivo Camacho Alves

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3790705

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2021

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3790705

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Blame Avoidance: The Costs of Weak Accountability in a Health Disaster

Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes Fernandes

Gustavo Almeida Lopes Fernandes

Guilherme Fernandes

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Image Restoration Strategies for the (mis-) handling of COVID – 19 Pandemic in Greece

Aspriadis

2021

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During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak all countries around the world used several kinds of response strategies to protect public health and control the outbreak. The main aim was to stop the disease from spreading into the community and put a pressure on the health system of the countries. However, severe measures like lockdown of cities and countries brought side-crises like economic pressure on the individuals, corporations and even the state itself. Although the Greek Government was considered to have managed the first phase of the crisis in March effectively, during the aftermath of the first phase, the complete opening of the economy and tourism, the lowering of measures leaded to the increase of new cases. The increased number of cases together with the late imposition of a new lockdown, leaded to the perception of a governmental failure. This perception mobilized direct or indirect image restoration strategies by officials of the Greek Government to maintain the positive image of their handling despite the general perceptions. This paper explores the image restoration strategies used by the prime minister of Greece for the handlings of the second phase of the pandemic in Greece. The methodology used is discourse analysis with the tools of Image Restoration Strategies by Benoit (1995) from October till December 2020.

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Image Restoration Strategies for the (mis-) handling of COVID – 19 Pandemic in Greece

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2021

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