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Title

Regulating risks in the European Union : the co-production of expert and executive power / edited by Maria Weimer and Anniek de Ruijter.

Publication

Oxford ; London : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Weimer, Maria
• Ruijter, Anniek de

Description

xxv, 266 pages; 25 cm

Summary

A growing body of EU law and regulation is preoccupied with the protection of EU citizens from health and environmental risks. Which chemicals are safe and should be allowed on the market? How should the EU respond to public health emergencies, such as Ebola and other infectious diseases? Regulatory responses to these questions confront deep uncertainty, limited knowledge and societal contestation. In a time where the use of scientific expertise in EU policy-making is particularly contested, this book offers a timely contribution to both the academic and policy debate on the role of specialised expertise in EU public decision-making on risk and technology as well as on its intertwinement with executive power. It draws on insights from law, governance, political sciences, and science and technology studies, bringing together leading scholars in this field. Contributions are drawn together by a shared theoretical perspective, namely by their use of co-production as an analytical lens to study the intricate interplay between techno-scientific expertise and EU executive power. By so doing, this collection produces highly original insights into the development of the EU administrative state, as well as into the role of regulatory science in its construction. This book will be useful to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers working on risk regulation and the role of expertise in public decision-making.

Subject

• Executive power > European Union countries
• Administrative agencies > European Union countries
• Risk management > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Risk assessment > European Union countries
• Public health laws > European Union countries
• Environmental law > European Union countries
• 86.55 administrative law: general
• Administrative agencies
• Environmental law
• Executive power
• Public health laws
• Risk assessment
• Risk management > Law and legislation
• European Union
• Health law
• European Union countries
• EU countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.

Contents

Regulating risks in the European Union : the co-production of expert and executive power / Maria Weimer and Anniek de Ruijter -- Constitutions of modernity : science, risk and governable subjects / Sheila Jasanoff -- Expert executive power, administrative constitutionalism and co-production : why they matter / Elizabeth Fisher -- Recombinant regulation : EU executive power and expertise in responding to synthetic biology / Elen Stokes -- Defining the invisible : between soft norms and hard realities in the European regulation of nanotechnologies / Tanja Ehnert -- Mixing EU security and public health expertise in the health threats decision / Anniek de Ruijter -- Constituting public health surveillance in twenty-first century Europe / Scott L Greer -- Behavioural expertise and regulatory power in Europe / Holger Strassheim -- Expertise as justification : the contested legitimation of the EU 'risk administration' / Maria Weimer and Gaia Pisani -- Evolving conceptions of science and legitimacy : insights from American administrative law / Christopher Anderson -- Accountability and co-production beyond courts : the role of the European ombudsman / Maria Lee.

ISBN

• 9781849468794
• 1849468796
• 9781509912667 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509912643 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017021514

OCLC

• ocn974676766
• 974676766
• SCSB-8882603

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library