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After disaster : agenda setting, public policy, and focusing events

Author: Thomas A Birkland
Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 1997.
Series: American governance and public policy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--P. [4] of cover.
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Birkland, Thomas A.
After disaster.
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)605248164
Online version:
Birkland, Thomas A.
After disaster.
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)631072215
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas A Birkland
ISBN: 0878406522 9780878406524 0878406530 9780878406531
OCLC Number: 36461727
Description: xi, 178 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Title: American governance and public policy.
Responsibility: Thomas A. Birkland.

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Examines how disasters like earthquakes, oil spills, and nuclear power plant accidents can act as focusing events "which cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions ... Explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies."--P. [4] of cover.

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