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The politics of precaution : regulating health, safety, and environmental risks in Europe and the United States
- Title
- The politics of precaution : regulating health, safety, and environmental risks in Europe and the United States / David Vogel.
- Author
- Vogel, David, 1947-
- Publication
- Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBE 16-300 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 317 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Consumer protection > Europe
- Consumer protection > United States
- Safety regulations > Europe
- Safety regulations > United States
- Public health laws > Europe
- Public health laws > United States
- Environmental policy > Europe
- Environmental policy > United States
- Consumer protection
- Environmental policy
- Public health laws
- Safety regulations
- Europe
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The transatlantic shift in regulatory stringency -- Explaining regulatory policy divergence -- Food safety and agriculture -- Air pollution -- Chemicals and hazardous substances -- Consumer safety -- Public risk perceptions and the preferences of policy makers -- The law and politics of risk assessment -- Broader implications.
- Call Number
- JBE 16-300
- ISBN
- 9780691124162
- 0691124167
- LCCN
- 2011031843
- OCLC
- 747385652
- Author
- Vogel, David, 1947-
- Title
- The politics of precaution : regulating health, safety, and environmental risks in Europe and the United States / David Vogel.
- Imprint
- Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 16-300