Responding to Crises in the Modern Infrastructure: Policy Lessons from Y2K

by K. Quigley

Overview

This book examines comparatively the US and the UK governments' management of Y2K and considers the extent to which such management can be understood as responses to market pressures, public opinion and organized interests. It concludes by providing valuable lessons to those concerned about managing risk and critical infrastructure today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230535879
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/31/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	211
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

KEVIN F. QUIGLEY is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction Risk-A Contested Concept How did the Governments react to Y2K? The Market Failure Hypothesis Opinion-Responsive Hypothesis Interest Group Hypothesis (The Issue Network) Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

'Quigley's well-pacd account is meticulously researched and systematically presented. It is the most authoratative analysis we are likely to get of an episode that is inevitably coloured by the very different perceptions of the people most closely involved... Quigley is to be congratulated on producing a clear, accessible and authoritative account of how governments over-reacted to but, perhaps, also successfully headed-off, a disaster that never was.' - Chris Bellamy, Nottingham Trent University, Public Administration vol. 88

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