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Freedom and Order : How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks--and Why Sometimes They Don't.
The book examines how governments and publics react to terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. It focuses specifically on why civil liberties are abridged in some cases and not in others. The chapters cover the topic by looking at it through a number of different lense...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Ch01. A Crisis or Opportunity?: Constructing a Theory of Terror Response; Ch02. To Conquer Fear, You Must Become Fear; Ch03. Shaping Fear: The Role of Mass Fear in Civil Liberties Reductions after Terrorist Attacks; Ch04. The United States after 9/11: Tracing the Process of How the PATRIOT Act Was Passed; Ch05. A New Kind of Enemy: Presidential versus Parliamentary Democracies in the War on Terror; Ch06. Balancing Fear: Why Counterterror Legislation Was Blocked after the Oklahoma City and London Bombings.
- Ch07. Living with Terrorism: Executive Power and the Future of Civil LibertiesBibliography; Index.