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Publication details [#52316]
Domke, David, Colin Lingle and Fahed Al-Sumait. 2009. Terrorism's cause and cure: the rhetorical regime of democracy in the US and UK. Critical Studies on Terrorism 2 (1) : 7–25.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper employs five major terrorist attacks between 1993 and 2005, to document how political leaders and news media used a power-maintaining 'rhetorical regime', that inhibited oppositional discourse and rationalized anti-democratic policies.