Jacob Cox and Austin Horng-En Wang (both Political Science) published an article, "," in European Political Science. The article analyzes two survey experiments on whether the leader's blame-shifting strategy works in the eye of voters, and whether such blame-shifting may lower people's trust on democratic accountability. The result shows that blame-shifting works among copartisans and indeed has a negative impact on democratic belief. Both surveys were supported by the Department of Political Science.
