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After disaster : agenda setting, public policy, and focusing events / Thomas A. Birkland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American governance and public policyPublication details: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585200637
  • 9780585200637
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: After disaster.DDC classification:
  • 320/.6 21
LOC classification:
  • JK468.P64 B57 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 89.56
Online resources:
Contents:
Focusing events, agenda setting, and the policy process -- A theory of focusing events and agenda change -- Natural disasters as focusing events -- Oil spills as focusing events -- Nuclear power plant accidents as focusing events -- The importance of focusing events in policy making.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index.

Focusing events, agenda setting, and the policy process -- A theory of focusing events and agenda change -- Natural disasters as focusing events -- Oil spills as focusing events -- Nuclear power plant accidents as focusing events -- The importance of focusing events in policy making.

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Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--Page 4 of cover.

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