Blame-Games, the Media and Discretionary Behaviour of Bureaucrats
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Keywords
Theory of Bureaucracy; Blame-Shifting; Natural Hazards;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CUL-2010-09-18 (Cultural Economics)
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