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

ISBN-13: 9780367887421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Steffen Hurka

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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