"The world changed today": Agenda-setting and policy change in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-200

  Birkland, Thomas A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLICY ANALYSIS; SECURITY THREAT; TERRORISM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1942530663     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2004.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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