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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 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.
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.
Contents
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
224 pages, Hardcover