• Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand 

      Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Geys, Benny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Scandals can cause serious damage to political parties’ brand name and reputation, which may taint all members of the party—even those not implicated in the scandal. In this article, we therefore explore how (uninvolved) ...
    • The Politics of Distributing Blame and Credit: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Norwegian Local Politicians 

      Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Bækgaard, Martin; Geys, Benny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      How do politicians attribute responsibility for good and poor policy outcomes across multiple stakeholders in a policy field where they themselves can affect service provision? Such ‘diffusion’ decisions are crucial to ...
    • Strategic public policy around population thresholds 

      De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny; Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Political economists have long maintained that politicians respond to both (re-)election and financial incentives. This article contributes to the latter literature by analysing whether, when and how local office-holders ...