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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...

This study provides novel insights into the internal organization of the European Parliament (EP) by analyzing the logic of amendment success on the institutions committee level. Three research hypotheses on potential factors driving the success and failure of amendments at the committee stage are tested for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). Employing stratified random sampling, a dataset containing 550 amendments from 55 ENVI members was compiled and analyzed with multinomial multilevel regressions. The results suggest that a committee member's general...

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly unhealthy discursive prioritisation...