Attributing Blame: The Public's Response to Hurricane Katrina
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- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 70 (1) , 120-135
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022381607080097
Abstract
When government fails, whom do citizens blame? Do these assessments rely on biased or content-rich information? Despite the vast literatures on retrospective voting in political science and attribu...Keywords
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