The discursive micro-politics of blame avoidance: unpacking the language of government blame games
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Blame avoidance; Blaming; Accountability; Legitimacy; Causal stories; Discursive strategies; Mediatization; Political scandal; Policy failure; Government communication; Discourse analysis;All these keywords.
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