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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Gabriel, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Government policy.

Civil rights.

Terrorism--Government policy.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-20695-8

1-283-08473-2

9786613084736

0-7391-6455-4

OCLC:

721194483