Government of Risk - Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

Zusatztext The analytical approach developed to undertake this classification is full of insights. The classification scheme set out in the book will serve anyone involved in practical institutional design well beyond the specific examples it presents. Klappentext Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? In this work! Hood explores these crucial questions explored. It looks at a number of risk regulations' regimes! considers the respects in which they differ! and examines how these differences can be justified. Zusammenfassung Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These are key questions explored in The Government of Risk. This book exposes the components of risk regulation systems and examines their interaction and explanation. The approach employed is of a high policy relevance as well as of considerable theoretical importance.

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• Authors: Robert Baldwin, Baldwin Robert, Christopher Hood, Christopher (Gladstone Professor of Governme Hood, Christopher Rothstein Hood, Hood Christopher, Henry Rothstein, Rothstein Henry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2001
• EAN: 9780199243631
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924363-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Management decision making, Central / national / federal government, Risk assessment, Central government