It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key
stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how …

A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing
from North American, European, and Asian case studies. Climate change, economists …

Examinations of the so-called digital divide–commonly thought of as the divide in access
and use of technology according to income–have been underway for the past decade. The …

Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively
little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars …

This article challenges the dominant assumptions in the literature that cutting social policy
incurs voter wrath and that political parties can efficiently internalise electoral fallout with …

Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks-including the Brookings Institution, the
Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century-and on the public and …

In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are
commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This …

Multilevel governance poses several challenges for the politics of climate change. On the
one hand, the unequal distribution of power and interests can serve as a barrier to …

This article takes stock of and reviews the comparative literature on blame avoidance
strategies in social policy reform to identify the conditions under which blame avoidance …

Blame avoidance behavior (BAB) encompasses all kinds of integrity-protecting activities by
officeholders in the face of potentially blame-attracting events. Although considered …