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Blame

Participation and accountability

Citizens’ Blame of Politicians for Local Public Service Failure

January 15, 2016 LPS Alliance
Theories of blame suggest that contracting out public service delivery reduces citizens’ blame of politicians for service failure. The authors use an online experiment with 1,000 citizen participants to estimate the effects of information cues […]

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