Rampage Shootings and Gun Control - Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Steffen Hurka is a post-doctoral researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Steffen Hurka, Steffen (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hurka, Hurka Steffen
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138630437
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63043-7
• Seiten: 200
• Serien: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics; Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Politics & government, Politics and government, Violence in society, Street crime, Violence and abuse in society, Street Crime / Gun Crime