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

by Thomas A. Birkland

Book Overview

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: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"