Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.
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Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.
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PART I: RISK REGULATION IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE American and European Views on Risk Divergent and Convergent Trend in the Regulation of Risk PART II: RISK REGULATION IN FOUR POLICY DOMAINS: SOCIAL RISKS, BIOLOGICAL RISKS, ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS, AND SOCIETAL RISKS Immigration Food Safety Flooding Election Technology and Election Fraud
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780230620490
Publisert
2010-07-21
Utgiver
Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Om bidragsyterne
LINA SVEDIN completed her Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science at Syracuse University, USA.
ADAM LUEDTKE is 2009-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Niehaus Centre for Globalization and Governance, USA and Princeton University, and an Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Utah.
THAD E. HALL is Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Institution of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah, USA.