Attributing Blame: The Public's Response to Hurricane Katrina

By Neil Malhotra, Alexander Kuo. Journal of Politics, 2008

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How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “Prior work on attributions shows that partisan labels shape evaluations of government actors: individuals express greater confidence in, and more positive evaluations of, co-partisans (e.g., Malhotra and Kuo 2008; Healy et al. 2014).”
Bias Will Find a Way: Economic Perceptions, Attributions of Blame, and Partisan-Motivated Reasoning during Crisis (2015, background): “…how partisans attribute credit and blame for policy outcomes selectively—a literature which has, for the most part, remained experimental or concerned with settings where real-world conditions hardly change (e.g., Malhotra and Kuo 2008; Marsh and Tilley 2010; Rudolph 2003b; Tilley and Hobolt 2011).”
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments* (2015, methodology): “In Study 1, we compare effect estimates from four different types of convenience samples and a populationbased sample.”
“They Did It”: The Effects of Emotionalized Blame Attribution in Populist Communication (2017, background): “This process, which is crucial for democratic functioning, is called attribution of responsibility (Gomez & Wilson, 2008; Malhotra & Kuo, 2008; Tilley & Hobolt, 2011).”