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Flash Flooding in the Political Stream: The Terror Attacks on the United States Inflame the Policy Environment

Mary Chaffee, MS, RN, CNAA, CHE, FAAN

Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed shortly thereafter have had far-reaching effects. In addition to devastating the American psyche, spurring the U.S. to tackle a global war on terrorism, and testing law enforcement agencies, the attacks transformed the policy environment. An examination of the impact of the terror attacks illustrates how a powerful focusing event can dominate the policy agenda.

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 3, No. 3, 208-211 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/15254402003003002
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