What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance?

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The lessons of failure: learning and blame avoidance in public policy-making (2012, background): “It is the essence of the blame-avoidance literature that such attributions of blame are thought to have significant electoral or legitimation consequences for all policy participants and thus to be a key subject of policy learning (Flynn, 2011; Hood, 2002, 2007, 2010; Weaver, 1986).”
Accountability and Multi-level Governance: More Accountability, Less Democracy? (2010, background): “Increased accountability can produce unintended negative consequences with respect to the expected goals, summarised by Hood ( 2007 : 202–3) under Albert Hirschman's concepts of futility, jeopardy, and perversity.”
Coping During Public Service Delivery: A Conceptualization and Systematic Review of the Literature (2015, unknown): “Such forces can invoke stress and hence coping (Brodkin, 2011; Hood, 2007), but the way professionals deal with this is unclear.”
Anticipatory and reactive forms of blame avoidance: of foxes and lions (2016, unknown): “…process, in administrations and networks, after crises and failures as well as during the normal course of events (Bovens et al ., 1999; Brändström and Kuipers, 2003; Hinterleitner and Sager, 2015; Hood, 2007; Boin et al ., 2009; Hood et al ., 2009; Hood, 2011; Moynihan, 2012; Mortensen, 2013b).”