European Blame Games

We study public responsibility attributions in the EU. In our project publications, we investigate various contested policies and explain the direction of public responsibility attributions as well as the strategies national governments and supranational actors employ in European blame games.

Publications

  • Heinkelmann-Wild, T., Rittberger, B., Zangl, B., & Kriegmair, L. (2024). European Blame Games: Where does the buck stop?. Oxford University Press.
  • Zangl, B., Heinkelmann-Wild, T., Glovania, J., & Klein-Bölting, L. (2024). No place to hide: The public attribution of responsibility for policy failures of international organisations. Review of International Studies, 1-18.
  • Heinkelmann-Wild, T., Zangl, B., Rittberger, B., & Kriegmair, L. (2023). Blame shifting and blame obfuscation: The blame avoidance effects of delegation in the European Union. European Journal of Political Research, 62(1), 221-238.
  • Kriegmair, L., Rittberger, B., Zangl, B., & Heinkelmann-Wild, T. (2022). Dolce far niente? Non-compliance and blame avoidance in the EU. West European Politics, 45(5), 1153-1174.
  • Heinkelmann-Wild, T., Kriegmair, L., Rittberger, B., & Zangl, B. (2020). Divided they fail: The politics of wedge issues and Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(5), 723-741.
  • Heinkelmann-Wild, T., Kriegmair, L., & Rittberger, B. (2020). The EU multi-level system and the Europeanization of domestic blame games. Politics and Governance, 8(1), 85-94.
  • Heinkelmann‐Wild, T., & Zangl, B. (2020). Multilevel blame games: Blame‐shifting in the European Union. Governance, 33(4), 953-969.
  • Heinkelmann-Wild, T., & Zangl, B. (2020). No Defenseless Scapegoats! Blame Avoidance Strategies of International Organizations. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61, 725-746.