Better Ways to Study Regulatory Elephants

We are grateful to the editor and reviewers for this opportunity to respond to the five essays reviewing two recent books comparing regulation in the US and Europe: The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States,1 and The Reality of Pre...

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Published inEuropean Journal of Risk Regulation Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 311 - 319
Main Authors Wiener, Jonathan B., Swedlow, Brendon, Hammitt, James K., Rogers, Michael D., Sand, Peter H.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
German
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.06.2013
Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
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Subjects
Benefit cost analysis
Business risks
Commercial regulation
Economic regulation
Elephants
Environmental regulation
Government regulation
Literature
Political rhetoric
Politics
Precautionary principle
Regulation
Replies by the authors
Rhetoric
Risk aversion
Stereotypes
Studies
Trees
United States > US
Europe
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Summary:We are grateful to the editor and reviewers for this opportunity to respond to the five essays reviewing two recent books comparing regulation in the US and Europe: The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States,1 and The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe.
ISSN:1867-299X
2190-8249
DOI:10.1017/S1867299X00003500