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In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place they deserve in the study of politics and public policy. Blame games are microcosms of conflictual politics that yield unique insights into democracies under pressure. Based on an original framework and the comparison of fifteen blame games in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and the US, it exposes the institutionalized forms of conflict management that democracies have developed to manage policy controversies. Whether failed infrastructure projects, food scandals, security issues, or flawed policy reforms, democracies manage policy controversies in an idiosyncratic manner. This book is addressed not only to researchers and students interested in political conflict in the fields of political science, public policy, public administration, and political communication, but to everyone concerned about the functioning of democracy in more conflictual times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Political culture --- Comparative government. --- Democracy --- Opposition (Political science) --- Political planning --- Crisis management in government --- Blame --- Government accountability --- Accountability in government --- Public administration --- Responsibility --- Criticism, Personal --- Government crisis management --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Political opposition --- Political science --- Divided government --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Culture --- Political aspects --- Western countries --- Occident --- West (Western countries) --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries --- Politics and government. --- blame games --- political conflict --- policy controversies --- comparative-historical analysis

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This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the “enemy” within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been defined by their nations as their enemies. This process of attempting to understand the orientation of defined “enemies” often shows that the soldier has begun a process of reflection about why he or she is part of the war experience. The texts included in this issue also show how political authorities often resort to propaganda and myth-making tactics that are meant to convince soldiers that they are fighting opponents who are evil, sub-human, etc., and are therefore their direct enemies. Literary texts that show an author and/or literary character trying to reflect against state-supported definitions of good/evil, right/wrong, and ally/enemy often present an opportunity to reevaluate the purposes of war and one’s moral responsibility during wartime.

political conflict --- fiction --- Robert Graves --- funeral songs --- contemporary Irish fiction --- oral tradition --- commiseration --- Islamophobia --- Hmong --- Herbert Read --- Lucy Hutchinson --- south-asian rhetoric --- Ford Madox Ford --- encounters --- Briseis --- Margaret Cavendish --- World War One --- rhetoric --- Second World War --- colonialism --- memoir --- fantasy --- Siegfried Sassoon --- narrative --- English Civil War --- war narratives --- interpreter --- captive-women --- Northern Ireland --- Anne Devlin --- Western American literature --- enemyship --- Italian Front --- frontier literature --- Randall Jarrell --- settler-colonialism --- First World War --- commiseration in arjun --- Afghanistan --- distance --- Sebastian Barry --- World War I --- ideology --- Will Mackin --- soldiers --- masculinity --- Luke Mogelson --- trench warfare --- Indian Wars --- Emilio Lussu --- terrorism --- Ireland --- Wilfred Owen --- Irish literature --- empathy --- war poetry --- J. R. R. Tolkien --- A Long Long Way --- war --- war writing --- Vietnam/Vietnamese --- enemies --- krishan’s rhetoric --- 1916 Easter Rising --- reconciliation --- vyas’ rhetoric --- Edna O’Brien --- cognitive dissonance --- rhetoric in the mahabharat --- George Armstrong Custer --- Keith Douglas --- war literature --- Andromache --- Robert Service --- Homer --- Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya