The terror that failed : public opinion in the aftermath of the bombing in Oklahoma city
By: LEWIS, Carol W
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, may/june 2000Public Administration Review: PAR 60, 3, p. 201-210Abstract: Did the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City affect the public's perception of terrorism as a political issues and their perceptions of individual risk and personal vulnerability ? The author finds that the bombing in Oklahoma City altered neither the public's assessment of personal risk nor its reported behavior. Public opinion on terrorism and crime share three patterns: (1) perceived risk of victimzation and the likely consequences afect public apprehension;(2) the voiced sense of personal security bears a direct relationship to the relative familiarity of the setting; and (3) the public shows resistance to the media's portrayal of risk. Opinion data indicate that domestic terrorism is likely to be seen as important in general and in the abstract, but with low personal risk, little impact on individual's routine behavior, and consequetly, low policial salience. In light of terrorism's purpose of inducing fear and the public's generally placid response on a personal level, the author concludes that the bombing failed as an act of domestic terrorism
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Did the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City affect the public's perception of terrorism as a political issues and their perceptions of individual risk and personal vulnerability ? The author finds that the bombing in Oklahoma City altered neither the public's assessment of personal risk nor its reported behavior. Public opinion on terrorism and crime share three patterns: (1) perceived risk of victimzation and the likely consequences afect public apprehension;(2) the voiced sense of personal security bears a direct relationship to the relative familiarity of the setting; and (3) the public shows resistance to the media's portrayal of risk. Opinion data indicate that domestic terrorism is likely to be seen as important in general and in the abstract, but with low personal risk, little impact on individual's routine behavior, and consequetly, low policial salience. In light of terrorism's purpose of inducing fear and the public's generally placid response on a personal level, the author concludes that the bombing failed as an act of domestic terrorism
Public Administration Review PAR
May/June 2000 Volume 60 Number 3
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