After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events

by Thomas A. Birkland

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Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events-sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of these dramatic events, explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.

Thomas A. Birkland explores important successes and failures in the policy process...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0878406530

ISBN13:9780878406531

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:Georgetown University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:2.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Communication Policy Earth Sciences Engineering Government Natural Disasters Nature Political History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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