Rampage shootings and gun control : politicization and policy change in Western Europe / Steffen Hurka
(Routledge research in comparative politics ; ; 70)
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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出版情報 | Abingdon, UK : Routledge , 2017 |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | 1 online resource |
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内容注記 | 1. Introduction 2. Rampage shootings, politicization and policy change 3. The impact of focusing events on public policy 4. Theorizing conditions for politicization, policy change and stability 5. How to study the political impact of rampage shootings 6. Paths to the (non- )politicization of gun control 7. When laws bite the bullet (and when they do not) 8. Conclusion |
一般注記 | While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control. The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control. The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena. In particular, the extent to which gun control gets politicized as a policy failure can either result from a bottom-up process (event severity and media pressure) or from a top-down logic (issue ownership and the electoral cycle). Including 12 case studies on the rampage shootings which have triggered a debate over the appropriateness of the affected countries' gun policies, it illustrates that the way political processes unfold after rampage shootings depends strongly on specific causal configurations and draws comparisons between the cases covered in the book and the way rampage shootings are typically dealt with in the United States. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of public policy, policy analysis, European Politics and more broadly to comparative politics, criminology, psychology, and sociology. -- Provided by publisher Open Access English Includes bibliographical references and index Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books 102664 |
著者標目 | *Hurka, Steffen, |
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分 類 | DC23:363.33094 DC23:363.3 |
書誌ID | ED00003737 |
ISBN | 9781138630437 |