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

By: Hurka, SteffenMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics SeriesPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: �2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351806602Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rampage Shootings and Gun ControlDDC classification: 363.33094 Online resources: Click to View
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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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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