León Alfonso, SandraJurado Nebreda, IgnacioGarmendia Madariaga, Amuitz2022-05-312022-05-312018-02-01León, S., Jurado, I., & Garmendia Madariaga, A. (2018). Passing the buck? Responsibility attribution and cognitive bias in multilevel democracies. West European Politics, 41 (3), pp. 660-682.0140-2382https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34954This 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.eng© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaMultilevel systemsResponsibility attributionCognitive biasBlameCreditresearch articleSociologíahttps://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2017.1405325open access6603682WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS41AR/0000020992