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Freedom and Order
How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks_and Why Sometimes They Don't
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2011
Summary
The book examines how governments and publics react to terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. It focuses specifically on why civil liberties are abridged in some cases and not in others. The chapters cover the topic by looking at it through a number of different lenses, including topics like how governments might manipulate fear, public opinion trends after terrorist attacks, how the Patriot Act was passed, and case studies where legislation was blocked by the legislature and a government chief executive did not seek to pass legislation at all after a terrorist attack. This innovative book compares different responses to terrorism without simply focusing on the case of 9/11, and, through comparison, reveals new findings about best practices for dealing with terrorism. Freedom and Order gives a fine-grain analysis of how the Patriot Act was passed that does not exist in any other text to-date and compares public responses to terror attacks from three different countries. Rubin deals a blow to the theory that the public rallies around their leader after terrorist attacks and that civil liberties are always abridged after terrorist attacks.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4735-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6455-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Ch01. A Crisis or Opportunity?: Constructing a Theory of Terror Response No access Pages 1 - 22
Ch02. To Conquer Fear, You Must Become Fear No access Pages 23 - 54
Ch03. Shaping Fear: The Role of Mass Fear in Civil Liberties Reductions after Terrorist Attacks No access Pages 55 - 86
Ch04. The United States after 9/11: Tracing the Process of How the PATRIOT Act Was Passed No access Pages 87 - 146
Ch05. A New Kind of Enemy: Presidential versus Parliamentary Democracies in the War on Terror No access Pages 147 - 190
Ch06. Balancing Fear: Why Counterterror Legislation Was Blocked after the Oklahoma City and London Bombings No access Pages 191 - 218
Ch07. Living with Terrorism: Executive Power and the Future of Civil Liberties No access Pages 219 - 232
