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We examine public attitudes toward urban terrorism, focusing on whether emotion or reason is a more important determinant of how people feel. Using the results of a public opinion survey in a large, Northeastern city, we find that both emotion and reason affect people’s reactions to terrorist attacks. However, this relationship is affected by personal conversation. The more people talk about terrorism, the greater the chance reason rather than fear will dictate reactions. These results have important ramifications for how urban officials deal with homeland security and assuage citizens whose excessive concerns about terrorism have led to costly security expenditures. |
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| West, Darrell. and Orr, Marion. "Managing Citizen Fears: Public Attitudes Toward Urban Terrorism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41235_index.html> |
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| West, D. M. and Orr, M. E. , 2005-09-01 "Managing Citizen Fears: Public Attitudes Toward Urban Terrorism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41235_index.html |
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Abstract: We examine public attitudes toward urban terrorism, focusing on whether emotion or reason is a more important determinant of how people feel. Using the results of a public opinion survey in a large, Northeastern city, we find that both emotion and reason affect people’s reactions to terrorist attacks. However, this relationship is affected by personal conversation. The more people talk about terrorism, the greater the chance reason rather than fear will dictate reactions. These results have important ramifications for how urban officials deal with homeland security and assuage citizens whose excessive concerns about terrorism have led to costly security expenditures. |
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| Managing Citizen Fears: Public Attitudes Toward Urban Terrorism by Darrell M. West Taubman Center for Public Policy Brown University Providence RI 02912-1977 (401) 863-1163 Darrell_West@brown.edu and Marion Orr Dept. of Political Science Brown University Providence RI 02912-1844 (401) 863-9436 Marion_Orr@brown.edu Keywords: Urban terrorism public opinion conversation homeland security urban policy September 11 2001 emotion fear rationality 2 Managing Citizen Fears: Public Attitudes Toward Urban Terrorism Abstract: We examine public attitudes toward urban terrorism focusing on whether emotion or reason |
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