Publication: Passing the buck? Responsibility attribution and cognitive bias in multilevel democracies
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2018-02-01
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Taylor & Francis
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This paper explores the effect of national partisanship and Euroscepticism on
individuals’ causal responsibility attribution in European multilevel democracies.
It is particularly focused on the average differences in responsibility attribution
in federal and non-federal states, as well as in countries belonging to different
European Union enlargement waves. Using a pooled dataset of the 2004, 2009, and
2014 European Election Studies, results show that when poor economic outcomes
are at stake, partisans of the national incumbent in federal states are more likely to
assign responsibility to regional governments following a blame-attribution logic,
while this logic is absent in non-federal states. Likewise, Eurosceptic individuals
are more likely to assign responsibility to European authorities when they hold
negative views of the economy and they belong to countries that have been
European Union members for a longer period.
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Multilevel systems, Responsibility attribution, Cognitive bias, Blame, Credit
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León, S., Jurado, I., & Garmendia Madariaga, A. (2018). Passing the buck? Responsibility attribution and cognitive bias in multilevel democracies. West European Politics, 41 (3), pp. 660-682.