1st Edition
Rampage Shootings and Gun Control Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe
By Steffen Hurka
Copyright 2017
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Steffen Hurka is a post-doctoral researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
