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Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union: Controlling Chaos

By Lina M. Svedin , Thad E. Hall , Adam Luedtke

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230620493, 9780230620490
LCC
JN32 .S84 2009
Open Library ID
OL23834050M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2369687 bytes)
Pages
224\224
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk. Globalization and federalism are two forces that promote convergence between Europe and America, while culture and politics often push governments down different roads.  This tension is explored in case studies dealing with four cutting-edge risk frontiers: immigration, flood control, food safety and voting technology.

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