Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism

by Richard P. Hiskes

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This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. Opposed to most theories of risk that focus on individual decision makers and models or rational choice, this book argues that risks must be seen as intrinsically both emergent and political phenomena. As such, risks resist reduction to individual actors, events, or decisions. To fully understand and make policy for risk,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195120086

ISBN13:9780195120080

Release Date:October 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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