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Stevens, Daniel and Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2016) Citizens and security threats : issues, perceptions and consequences beyond the national frame. British journal of political science, 46 (1). pp. 149-175. doi:10.1017/S0007123414000143 ISSN 0007-1234.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123414000143
Abstract
Citizens are now central to national security strategies, yet governments readily admit that little is known about public opinion on security. This article presents a unique and timely examination of public perceptions of security threats. By focusing on the breadth of security threats that citizens identify, their psychological origins, how they vary from personal to global levels, and the relationships between perceptions of threats and other political attitudes and behaviours, the article makes several new contributions to the literature. These include extending the levels at which threats are perceived from the national versus personal dichotomy to a continuum spanning the individual, family, community, nation and globe, and showing the extent to which perceptions of threat at each level have different causes, as well as different effects on political attitudes and behaviour. These findings are also relevant to policy communities’ understanding of what it means for a public to feel secure.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National security, Security, International | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British journal of political science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0007-1234 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 46 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 27 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 149-175 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0007123414000143 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 December 2015 | ||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
| Grant number: | ES/J004596/1 (ESRC) |
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