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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791973603321

Autore

Rubin Gabriel <1979->

Titolo

Freedom and order [[electronic resource] ] : how democratic governments restrict civil liberties after terrorist attacks--and why sometimes they don't / / Gabriel Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

1-283-08473-2

9786613084736

0-7391-6455-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Disciplina

323.4/9

Soggetti

Civil rights - Government policy

Terrorism - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

This book forwards the debate on how to respond to terror attacks. It compares legislative responses to terrorism in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel finding that government centralization and abridgement of rights are common, but that the story is much more nuanced and complicated than at first meets the eye. Not all terror attacks lead to new legislation, many lead to muted responses.