Everyday security threats: Perceptions, experiences, and consequences

✍ Scribed by Daniel Stevens; Nick Vaughan-Williams

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 210
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Perspectives on security threat politics
The 2012 study ‘Public Perceptions of Threat in Britain’
The scope of security threats and their causes
Security threats and their consequences
Government, perceptions and experiences of security threats, and citizen involvement in the risk management cycle
Conclusion
Appendix: Coding of variables
References
Index

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