Pass the Buck If You Can: How Partisan Competition Triggers Attribution Bias in Multilevel Democracies

Rico, Guillem; Liñeira, Robert

doi:10.1007/s11109-017-9409-5

Cited by 22 publications

(21 citation statements)

References 51 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The potential consequences of multi-level system structures for party competition and government formation, as well as their effects on dual accountability, are still not sufficiently reflected in the existing scholarly research, which is mainly concerned with vertical contamination and spill-over effects of European multi-level systems for individual voting behaviour. Accordingly, the literature has come to different conclusions on the actual functioning of dual accountability (Rodden and Wibbels 2011;Thorlakson 2016) and the institutional conditions under which it is most likely to develop (Golder et al 2017;León and Orriols 2016;Rico and Liñeira 2018).…”

Section: The State Of the Art And The Contribution Of This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Party competition and dual accountability in multi-level systems

Baumann

Ecker

Groß³

2020

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sub-national self-governance is on the rise across European democracies. This increasing decentralization changes party competition in multi-level governance systems, and has broad implications for voters' ability to assign political responsibility and to hold politicians accountable. Regarding the interplay between party competition and dual accountabilitythat is, the attribution of accountability to the relevant levelin multi-level governance systems, we propose to distinguish conceptually between an electoral and a governmental arena. Whereas dual accountability in the electoral arena is challenged by varying degrees of party system nationalization, the governmental arena is characterized by a trade-off between the wish for clear-cut dual accountability and the need for political stability. We discuss these challenges in detail and link the various contributions in this special issue to these challenges. We add to the existing literature that increasingly deals with the theoretical and empirical challenges of electoral accountability in ever more institutionally complex systems of multi-level governance.

show abstract

Section: The State Of the Art And The Contribution Of This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Party competition and dual accountability in multi-level systems

Baumann

Ecker

Groß³

2020

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The 0 value indicates that the two governments are equally responsible . Using the differences in the evaluation of the national and regional governments is common in the literature (see, for instance, Hobolt and Tilley ; Rico and Liñeira ), and it allows the minimisation of the different impact that the economic crisis had in Spain and Germany. For instance: the value of the dependent variable will be the same if both an individual in Spain evaluates the responsibility of the national government as very high (3) and the regional government as quite high (2), and an individual in Germany evaluates the responsibility of the national and the regional government, responsibility, as quite high (2) and not too high (1).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Aguilar and Sánchez‐Cuenca () showed that regional nationalist voters tend to exonerate regional nationalist governments following poor performance (Aguilar and Sánchez‐Cuenca ), and Alonso (: 82) showed that ethno‐nationalist parties are ‘relatively immune to electoral punishment stemming from government performance as conventionally defined in economic terms’. Finally, Rico and Liñeira () have recently shown that responsibility judgements in Spain concerning the economic crisis are restricted to regions where the national and regional incumbents are from different parties and that territorial attachment is only able to explain attribution bias in regions where the government is led by a nationalist party. Even though these works link the role of identities and the attribution of blame in multi‐level political structures, we still lack a study addressing how the different types of identities may influence the attribution of responsibilities.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Territorial Identities and Blame Attrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nested or exclusive? The role of identities on blame attribution during the Great Recession

Guinjoan

Bermúdez

2019

Nations and Nationalism

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite an increasing number of studies assessing the importance of institutions as regards to accountability, it still remains to be known whether and how an individual's national and regional identity shapes the attribution of responsibilities in multi‐level settings. By focusing on the economic crisis that affected Europe since 2008, we argue that identity‐based assessments of responsibility for the crisis will occur solely among individuals who hold exclusively national or regional identities and who live in regions that have nationalist aspirations. This will be in contrast to individuals that have exclusively identities who live in regions that lack nationalist aspirations, as well as dual‐identity individuals, irrespective of where they live. We test our arguments by using data from Catalonia and Madrid (Spain) and Bavaria and Lower Saxony (Germany). In line with our expectations, our results show that, in minority nationalist regions such as Catalonia, an individual's identity will crucially determine which level of government is blamed for the economic crisis, while this will not occur in regions with no nationalist aspirations. The article reveals the existence of an additional determinant of blame attribution in some specific multi‐level arrangements and contributes to the understanding of the tensions between identity politics and blame avoidance.

show abstract

“…Other scholars show that partisan alignment tend to moderate the impact of economic evaluations in vote choices Rudolph (2003a), Rudolph (2003b), Marsh and Tilley (2009). 8 A recent contribution in the area is Rico and Liñeira (2017)…”

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…11 Other works have also used survey experiments to explore the role of partisanship in individuals' responsibility assignments, see Rudolph (2005), Malhotra and Kuo (2008), Tilley and Hobolt (2011b), Rico and Liñeira (2017). 12 The online survey used in this paper has 2108 observations: 702 for England, 698 for Scotland and 708 for Wales.…”

Section: Specificallymentioning

confidence: 99%