Freedom and order
Subtitle: how democratic governments restrict civil liberties after terrorist attacks--and why sometimes they don't
By: Gabriel Rubin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780739147351; 9780739164556
Subjects: Civil rights; Government policy; Terrorism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A crisis or opportunity? : constructing a theory of terror response; title: To conquer fear, you must become fear; title: Shaping fear : the role of mass fear in civil liberties reductions after terrorist attacks; title: The United States after 9/11 : tracing the process of how the Patriot Act was passed; title: "We're fighting this new kind of enemy" : Presidential versus parliamentary democracies in the War on Terror; title: Balancing fear : why counterterror legislation was blocked after the Oklahoma City and London bombings; title: Living with terrorism : executive power and the future of civil liberties.