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

摘要: The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede access of gun control political agenda in wake rampage shootings and analyses why some debates lead profound shifts policy status quo, while others peter without any legislative reactions. In so doing, book not only contributes theoretical literature on crisis-induced making, but also provides a wealth case-study evidence as empirical phenomena. particular, extent which gets politicized failure can either result from bottom-up process (event severity media pressure) top-down logic (issue ownership electoral cycle). Including 12 case studies have triggered debate over appropriateness affected countries´ policies, it illustrates way processes unfold after depends strongly specific causal configurations draws comparisons between cases covered are typically dealt with United States.