Everyday security threats: perceptions, experiences, and consequences
by Stevens, Daniel, (Daniel Peter)
This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. The data is used to investigate the extent to which a diverse public shares government framings of the most pressing security threats, to assess the origins of perceptions of security threats, to investigate what makes some people feel more threatened than others, to examine the effects of threats…
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- Full title :Everyday security threats : perceptions, experiences, and consequences / Daniel Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams.
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This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. The data is used to investigate the extent to which a diverse public shares government framings of the most pressing security threats, to assess the origins of perceptions of security threats, to investigate what makes some people feel more threatened than others, to examine the effects of threats on other areas of politics and to evaluate the effectiveness of government messages about security threats. We demonstrate widespread heterogeneity in perceptions of issues as security threats and in their origins, with implications for the extent to which shared understandings of threats are an attainable goal. While this study focuses on the British case, it seeks to make broader theoretical and methodological contributions to Political Science, International Relations, Political Psychology, and Security Studies.--
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- Publication Date:©2017
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- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 196 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780719096068, 0719096065
- oclc:ocn950450349
- LC Classification:HV6433.G7
- Dewey Decimal:355/.033041
Table of Contents
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.
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