Politics of Precaution (eBook)

Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States

David Vogel (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4256-8 (ISBN)

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David Vogel is professor at the Haas School of Business and in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility.David Vogel is professor at the Haas School of Business and in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990, the book shows, global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal? David Vogel takes an in-depth, comparative look at European and American policies toward a range of consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and hazardous substances in electronic products. He traces how concerns over such risks--and pressure on political leaders to do something about them--have risen among the European public but declined among Americans. Vogel explores how policymakers in Europe have grown supportive of more stringent regulations while those in the United States have become sharply polarized along partisan lines. And as European policymakers have grown more willing to regulate risks on precautionary grounds, increasingly skeptical American policymakers have called for higher levels of scientific certainty before imposing additional regulatory controls on business.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: activism • Adverse effect • affluent democracies • Agricultural Production • Agriculture • Air Pollution • Amendment • American chemical regulations • American policies • American regulatory policies • americans • Animal feed • authorization • Availability cascade • Brookings Institution • Business Ethics • carcinogen • Case study • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • Chemical Industry • chemicals • Clean Air Act (United States) • climate change • Consumer Protection • consumer regulation • consumer risk regulation • consumer safety • Cosmetics • cosmetic safety • cost-benefit analyses • Cost–benefit analysis • costТenefit analyses • Criticism • de facto • Directive (European Union) • domestic pressures • drug lag • Drugs • Economic Integration • Economics • Electronic waste • Emission standard • Endangered Species Act • Environmentalism • Environmental issue • Environmentalist • Environmental Law • environmental organization • Environmental Policy • environmental protection • Environmental Quality • Environmental Regulation • environmental risk regulation • environmental risk regulations • EU • Europe • European chemical regulations • European Commission • European Parliament • European policies • European Union • European Union Law • Executive Office of the President • Federal government of the United States • Food additive • Food Quality Protection Act • Food Safety • genetically modified agriculture • Genetically Modified Food • George W. Bush • Globalization • global regulatory leadership • global warming • Governance • government officials • Greenhouse Gas • Hazardous Substances • hazardous waste • Health • health advocate • Health Risk • Hormone • ingredient • International Law • International Trade • Jurisdiction • Legislation • Legislator • Legitimacy (political) • lobbying • Marketing authorization • Member State • mobile source pollutants • National policy • Natural Resources Defense Council • Non-governmental organization • nongovernment organizations • Occupational Safety and Health • Oxford University Press • ozone depletion • Pesticide • Pesticides • Pharmaceutical Regulation • Phthalate • Policy • policy convergence • policy errors • policy makers • policy outcomes • policy shifts • policy styles • political agenda • Political Party • political salience • Political Systems • Politician • Politics • pollution • pollution prevention • Precautionary principle • Public Campaign • public demands • Public Opinion • Public Policy • public pressures • public risk • REACH • Recycling • Regulation • Regulatory Agency • regulatory officials • regulatory stringency • Requirement • Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive • risk assessment • Risk Assessments • Risk Management • Risk Perception • risk regulation • risk regulations • Safety • Safety risks • Sheila Jasanoff • Statute • Thalidomide • The Wall Street journal • Toxicology • Toxic Substances Control Act 1976 • Trade barrier • Trading Up (book) • transatlantic commerce • transatlantic politics • transatlantic risk regulation • Treaty • Treaty on European Union • Uncertainty • United States • vehicle air pollution • White Paper • World Trade Organization
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4256-5 / 1400842565
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4256-8 / 9781400842568