Bombs, Bullets, and Politicians

""Chowanietz's findings add a new dimension to studies of counterterrorist policies and practices. No other author has specifically addressed the issue of how terrorist actions impact upon party politics in democracies by marshalling both quantitative and qualitative evidence across a comparative range of countries. He sheds much-needed light on how policies are formed and sustained in the partisan competition that characterizes all western democracies as well as how policy informs and limits the capacity of governments to act in the face of terrorist provocations."" Reg Whitaker, University of Victoria ""Bombs, Bullets, and Politicians offers a pertinent analysis of the relationship between terrorism and the conduct of Western party politics."" Conference of Defence Associations Institute ""This original and informative book ultimately focuses on France but it is fact, broader, examining five Western countries—France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the US. The findings are clearly stated, as are consequent further avenues of research. Recommended."" Choice