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Rampage Shootings and Gun Control
While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control. The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretic...
Rampage Shootings and Gun Control
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 --...
Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap
Responsiveness to societal demands entails policy accumulation, which undermines the ability of democracies to communicate, implement and evaluate public policy.
Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU
This book examines the effects of personnel turnover in European Union institutions. Individuals enter and exit EU institutions with remarkable frequency, and questions involving institutional personnel lie at the heart of populist and feminist critiques of the EU. Are these critiques accurate? How do personnel dynamics affect the EU’s legitimacy? Will changing patterns of turnover help to redeem the EU? Personnel Turnover addresses these issues by considering turnover’s effects on three aspects of legitimacy (input, throughput, and output). Authors use a common framework to explore various questions: Does turnover affect the ways that EU citizens see the EU or the likelihood that citizens will participate in EU elections? Does turnover affect the efficiency of the EU decision-making or the EU’s ability to promote its interests abroad? In tackling these contemporary subjects, the authors throw light on a classical question—what difference does it make when political leaders are replaced?
Morality Politics in a Secular Age
"Euchner’s carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics. Its combination of quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis involving a novel data set and cross-policy perspectives demonstrates persuasively the role of religion as a resource for political action even in secularized societies." —Michael Minkenberg, Viadrina European University, Germany “Building upon the dichotomy between the “secular” and “religious” worlds of European morality politics, Dr. Euchner plumbs the empirical depths of four nations to unearth a compelling theoretical explan...
Hyper-active Governance
The concept of hyper-active Governance shows how politicians govern complex networks, in light of the politicisation of expertise.
The Battle for Christian Britain
Exposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945-65 and their subsequent collapse.
Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
Sheds new light on the use of external public policy consultants from an interdisciplinary and international comparative approach.
Rethinking Politicisation in Politics, Sociology and International Relations
This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation beyond the state of the art. It is the first book to theorise and conceptualise ‘politicisation’ across the epistemic communities of different subdisciplines, bringing together the different strands in the debate: (international) political theory, political sociology, comparative politics, EU studies, legal theory and international relations. This provides a comprehensive discussion of different concepts of politicisation, their ontological and theoretical backgrounds, and their analytical value, including speech-act, practice- and actor-oriented approaches. Furthermore, the linkages of politicisation to the concepts of ...
A Matter of Style
Shows that the administrative bodies of international organizations can develop informal working routines that allow them to exert influence beyond their formal autonomy. It is relevant to all political scientists as well as broader audiences interested in the dynamics of global policy making and the role of public administrations therein.
