Blame and Water Policy in the Southwest United States

• In Event: Exploring the Water Crisis in the US West

Brief Overview

We use a survey experiment to understand how blame attribution of water shortage problems --external actors, political actors, individual citizens-- affect citizens’ preferences on policy tools, collaboration, and willingness to coproduce.

Authors

• Dani M McLaughlin, Kent State University at Kent

• Minwoo Ahn, Arizona State University-Tempe