Terrorism, threat and time: The mediating effect of terrorist threat on public willingness to forego civil liberties

Proceedings - 2011 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, EISIC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 52-57

  Elvy, Dale ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Civil liberties; Counter terrorism; Public opinion; Public policy; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CIVIL LIBERTIES; COUNTER TERRORISM; COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES; COURT ORDERS; GOVERNMENT EFFORTS; GOVERNMENT IS; MEDIATING EFFECT; POLICY MAKERS; PUBLIC FEARS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC SUPPORT; PUBLIC TRUST; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TERRORIST THREATS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; PUBLIC POLICY;

TERRORISM;

EID: 81255167321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2011.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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