The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein and Robert Baldwin
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Christopher Hood: Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Henry Rothstein: Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics

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Abstract: Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at a number of risk regulation regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified. Analyzing regulation in terms of 'regimes' allows us to see the rich, multi-dimensional nature of risk regulation. It exposes the thinness of society-wide analyses of risk controls and it offers a perspective that single case studies cannot reach. Regimes analysis breaks down the components of risk regulation systems and shows how they interact. It also shows how different parts of the same regime may be shaped by different factors and have to be explained and understood in quite different ways. The Government of Risk shows how such an approach is of high policy relevance as well as of considerable theoretical importance.

Date: 2004
ISBN: 9780199270019
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