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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurka, Steffen.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Lists of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Rampage shootings, politicization and policy change
  • 2.1 Rampage shootings as potential focusing events
  • 2.2 Conceptualizing politicization
  • 2.3 Conceptualizing policy change
  • 3 The impact of focusing events on public policy
  • 3.1 Theoretical frameworks on the political process
  • 3.2 The politics of gun policy
  • 3.3 Typologies of crises and disasters
  • 3.4 Rampage shootings in the academic literature
  • 3.5 Beyond rampage shootings: findings on event-related policy change
  • 3.6 Research gap and research promise
  • 4 Theorizing conditions for politicization, policy change and stability
  • 4.1 Theoretical expectations on the politicization of gun control
  • 4.2 Theoretical expectations on policy change and stability
  • 4.3 Summary of the theoretical expectations
  • 5 How to study the political impact of rampage shootings
  • 5.1 Scope conditions
  • 5.2 Case identification procedure
  • 5.3 Pool of cases and some background information
  • 5.4 The methodology of (fs)QCA
  • 5.5 QCA: a primer on terminology and technique
  • 5.6 The varying applicability of QCA in the present research context
  • 6 Paths to the (non-)politicization of gun control
  • 6.1 Operationalization, measurement and descriptive information
  • 6.2 Set calibration
  • 6.3 Analysis of necessity
  • 6.4 Analysis of sufficiency
  • 6.5 Summary of the findings on politicization
  • 7 When laws bite the bullet (and when they do not)
  • 7.1 Great Britain
  • 7.2 Germany
  • 7.3 Finland
  • 7.4 France
  • 7.5 Austria
  • 7.6 Switzerland
  • 7.7 Belgium
  • 7.8 Comparative assessment
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Appendix A: non-selected cases
  • Appendix B: robustness checks for the analysis of politicization
  • Index.

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