Blame Avoidance: the costs of weak accountability in a health disaster

• In Event: Political Consequences of COVID in Developing Nations

Brief Overview

Does the politics of blame avoidance jeopardize policies' compliance and effectiveness to confront crises in complex federative systems? We propose a framework that explores how blame avoidance games can jeopardize public policies' effectiveness.

Authors

• Ivan Filipe Filipe Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Federal University of ABC

• Gustavo L Fernande, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

• Guilherme Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Usp

• Pedro Salvador, Universidade Federal do ABC