Synopses & Reviews
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk. Globalization and federalism are two forces that promote convergence between Europe and America, while culture and politics often push governments down different roads. This tension is explored in case studies dealing with four cutting-edge risk frontiers: immigration, flood control, food safety and voting technology.
About the Author
Lina Svedin completed her Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science at Syracuse University. She also has an M.A. in international relations from Stockholm University. Lina has extensive experience working with public administration practitioners and researchers around the world, supervising case study research, and teaching and training policy makers in crisis management. She has worked as a Special Advisor on crisis management for the Swedish Cabinet Office and Training Director at the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training located at the Swedish National Defence College. Lina's approach is interdisciplinary but her research focuses on crises, cooperation, ethics, and policy analysis. She has published several monographs and has edited a number of volumes on crisis management in European countries. Most recently Lina published,
Organizational Cooperation in Crises.
Adam Luedtke is 2009-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and Princeton University, and an Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2006, where his dissertation committee was chaired by Jim Caporaso. Luedtke's research is on immigration, globalization and international organizations. He is the editor of Migrants and Minorities: the European Response, and has also published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Governance, European Union Politics, Policy Studies Journal, International Migration, Comparative European Politics, and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Thad E. Hall is Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Institution of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah. He is the coauthor of the books Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy, Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting, and Authorizing Policy. He also co-edited the book Election Fraud and has published numerous articles on election administration and reform.
Table of Contents
PART I: Risk Regulation in a Comparative Perspective * American and European views on risk * Divergent and convergent trend in the regulation of risk * PART II:Risk regulation in four policy domains: social risks, biological risks, environmental risks, and societal risks * Immigration * Food safety * Flooding * Election technology and election fraud