Reactivity, Staged Retreat and Efficacy in Blame Avoidance: A Comparative Analysis of Political Scandals

March 8, 2011

Professor Christopher Hood (Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford)

Professor Hood will present some current work with Will Jennings and Paul Copeland, empirically exploring some of the blame-avoidance issues discussed in his book The Blame Game, looking at four cases of political scandal.

Sidney Smith Hall Room 2098 (History Seminar room)