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Rampage Shootings and Gun Control - Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe (Paperback)
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Rampage Shootings and Gun Control - Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
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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 others
peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book
not only contributes to the theoretical literature on
crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of
case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena. In
particular, the extent to which gun control gets politicized as a
policy failure can either result from a bottom-up process (event
severity and media pressure) or from a top-down logic (issue
ownership and the electoral cycle). Including 12 case studies on
the rampage shootings which have triggered a debate over the
appropriateness of the affected countries gun policies, it
illustrates that the way political processes unfold after rampage
shootings depends strongly on specific causal configurations and
draws comparisons between the cases covered in the book and the way
rampage shootings are typically dealt with in the United States.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of
public policy, policy analysis, European Politics and more broadly
to comparative politics, criminology, psychology, and sociology.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315209425, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
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