Overview
- Examines shark bite policy responses to learn more about politics
- Develops a new framework to look at highly emotional policymaking
- Argues that politicians are the true sharks in the “politics of shark attacks”
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This book examines the policymaking process following highly emotional events. It focuses on the politics of shark “attacks” by looking at policy responses to tragic shark bites in Florida, Australia, and South Africa. The book reviews these cases by identifying the flaws in the human-shark relationship, including the way sharks are portrayed as the enemy, the way shark bites are seen as intentional, and how policy responses appear to be based on public safety. Flaws identifies politicians as the true sharks of this story for their manipulation of tragic circumstances to protect their own interests. It argues that shark bites are ungovernable accidents of nature, and that we are “in the way, not on the menu.”
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christopher Pepin-Neff is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research looks at theories of the policy process by focusing on highly emotional issues such as LGBTQI politics and the "politics of shark attacks."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flaws
Book Subtitle: Shark Bites and Emotional Public Policymaking
Authors: Christopher L. Pepin-Neff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10976-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10975-2Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10976-9Published: 20 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Legislative and Executive Politics, Governance and Government, Political Leadership, Emotion, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice