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Negative Liberty - Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America (Paperback)
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Negative Liberty - Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America (Paperback)
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Did America s democratic convictions change forever after the
terrorist attacks of September 11? In the wake of 9/11, many
pundits predicted that Americans new and profound anxiety would
usher in an era of political acquiescence. Fear, it was claimed,
would drive the public to rally around the president and tolerate
diminished civil liberties in exchange for security. Political
scientist Darren Davis challenges this conventional wisdom in
Negative Liberty, revealing a surprising story of how September 11
affected Americans views on civil liberties and security. Drawing
on a unique series of original public opinion surveys conducted in
the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and over the subsequent three
years, Negative Liberty documents the rapid shifts in Americans
opinions regarding the tradeoff between liberty and security, at a
time when the threat of terrorism made the conflict between these
values particularly stark. Theories on the psychology of threat
predicted that people would cope with threats by focusing on
survival and reaffirming their loyalty to their communities, and
indeed, Davis found that Americans were initially supportive of
government efforts to prevent terrorist attacks by rolling back
certain civil liberties. Democrats and independents under a
heightened sense of threat became more conservative after 9/11, and
trust in government reached its highest level since the Kennedy
administration. But while ideological divisions were initially
muted, this silence did not represent capitulation on the part of
civil libertarians. Subsequent surveys in the years after the
attacks revealed that, while citizens perceptions of threat
remained acute, trust in the government declined dramatically in
response to the perceived failures of the administration s foreign
and domestic security policies. Indeed, those Americans who
reported the greatest anxiety about terrorism were the most likely
to lose confidence in the government in the years after 2001. As a
result, ideological unity proved short lived, and support for civil
liberties revived among the public. Negative Liberty demonstrates
that, in the absence of faith in government, even extreme threats
to national security are not enough to persuade Americans to
concede their civil liberties permanently. The September 11 attacks
created an unprecedented conflict between liberty and security,
testing Americans devotion to democratic norms. Through lucid
analysis of concrete survey data, Negative Liberty sheds light on
how citizens of a democracy balance these competing values in a
time of crisis."
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