Rampage shootings and gun control politicization and policy change in Western Europe

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hurka, Steffen, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge 2017.
2017.
Colección:Routledge research in comparative politics ; 70.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428788306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.