After Disaster - Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events

Summary

Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A. Birkland
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780878406531
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-653-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: American Governance and Public; American Governance and Public Policy series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system