January, 2009

Commentary on Terrorism and Risk Communication by Timothy Sellnow

by The Editors
The Conversation
January 21st, 2009

Editors’ Note: From time to time, we receive particularly well-considered expert commentary on an issue of Cato Unbound. This month we received two such commentaries, and we are pleased to run the second of them today. It comes from Timothy Sellnow, a professor of risk and crisis communication at the University of Kentucky who has [...]

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Risk Communication and the Dynamics of Public Response

by William Burns
The Conversation
January 16th, 2009

Camille Pecastaing offers a number of useful insights in response to my essay and Bernard Finel’s and John Mueller’s comments. He begins by pointing out that what I call fear in my essay is really anxiety. This is a good point, because fear is more visceral but anxiety endures well past the traumatic events. Anxiety [...]

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