9780199665686-0199665680-Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union

Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union

ISBN-13: 9780199665686
ISBN-10: 0199665680
Edition: 1
Author: Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199665686
ISBN-10: 0199665680
Edition: 1
Author: Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 208 pages

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Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union (ISBN-13: 9780199665686 and ISBN-10: 0199665680), written by authors Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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A key component of democratic accountability is that citizens understand 'who is to blame'. Nonetheless, little is known about how citizens attribute responsibility in the European Union or how those perceptions of responsibility matter. This book presents the first comprehensive account of how citizens assign blame to the EU, how politicians and the media attempt to shift blame and finally, how it matters for electoral democracy. Based on rich and unique data sources, Blaming Europe? sheds light on all three aspects of responsibility in the EU. First, it shows that while institutional differences between countries shape citizen judgements of EU responsibility, those judgements are also highly determined by pre-existing attitudes towards the EU. Second, it demonstrates that neither politicians nor the media assign much blame to the EU. Third, it establishes that regardless of whether voters are capable of accurately assigning responsibility, they are not able to hold their EU representatives to account via the ballot box in European elections due to the lack of an identifiable 'European government' to reward or punish. As a consequence, when citizens hold the EU responsible for poor performance, but are unable to sanction an EU incumbent, they lose trust in the EU as a whole instead. In conclusion, it argues that this 'accountability deficit' has significant implications for the future of the European Union.

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