The Struggle for Auto Safety / / Jerry L. Mashaw, David L. Harfst.

Combining superb investigative reporting with incisive analysis, Jerry Mashaw and David Harfst provide a compelling account of the attempt to regulate auto safety in America. Their penetrating look inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spans two decades and reveals the co...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1990
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (285 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • One. Regulation and Legal Culture
  • Two. The Law of a Mobile Society
  • Three. Science, Safety, and the Politics of Righteousness
  • Four. Promise and Performance
  • Five. The Great Leap Forward
  • Six. The Crumbling Consensus
  • Seven. Legislating Liberty
  • Eight. Regulation as Recalls
  • Nine. Inside NHTSA
  • Ten. Regulation for an Ambivalent Polity
  • Eleven. Law, Politics, and Regulatory Strategy
  • Notes / Index
  • Notes
  • Index