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Democracy's Blameless Leaders: From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, Atrocity, and Killing

In line with our policy of requesting double weighting only on items that are not publications from PhDs or jointly authored, double weighting is proposed here since the volume and extent of research effort involved is equivalent to at least two journal articles. The monograph presents a theory of political blame the 'gravitational' theory of political accountability, according to which, when there is serious policy failure, blame falls to the bottom (personal peccadilloes concerning sex and money appear to exhibit an inverse logic). The case studies are theoretically selected and use the historical record to explore the phenomenon.