The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

by Christopher Hood, Robert Baldwin, Henry Rothstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199243631
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/24/2001
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

All Soul's College, University of Oxford

both at London School of Economics

Table of Contents

PART I. INTRODUCING RISK REGULATION REGIMES1. What are Risk Regulation Regimes - and Why do they Matter? 2. The Comparative Anatomy of Risk Regulation Regimes3. Nine Risk Regulation Regimes ComparedPART II. EXPLAINING VARIATION IN RISK REGULATION REGIMES4. How Far does Context Shape Content? 5. Exploring the 'Market Failure' Hypothesis6. Opinion-Responsive Government and Risk Regulation7. Interests, Lobbies and Experts8. Regime Content and Context Revisited- An Overall PicturePART III. EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS OF RISK REGULATION REGIMES9. Regime Development Under Pressure: Staged Retreats and Lateral Mutations? 10. The Regime Perspective in Risk Regulation: Implications for Policy and Institutional Design