The Politics of Precaution : : Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States / / David Vogel.
The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. The Transatlantic Shift in Regulatory Stringency
- Chapter Two. Explaining Regulatory Policy Divergence
- Chapter Three. Food Safety and Agriculture
- Chapter Four. Air Pollution
- Chapter Five. Chemicals and Hazardous Substances
- Chapter Six. Consumer Safety
- Chapter Seven. Public Risk Perceptions and the Preferences of Policy Makers
- Chapter Eight. The Law and Politics of Risk Assessment
- Chapter Nine. Broader Implications
- Index