Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice Policy Agenda in Britain.
How and when issues are elevated onto the political agenda is a perennial question in the study of public policy. This article considers how moral panics contribute to punctuated equilibrium in public policy by drawing together broader societal anxieties or fears and thereby precipitating or acceler...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 207 - 235 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2020
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