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

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

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 to pressure governments to insure against risk.

Keywords

POLITICAL PLANNINGPUBLIC OPINION_EUROPEPUBLIC OPINION_UNITED STATESRISK

2010Book

Author(s)Lina M. Svedin

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9780230620490

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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