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

by Richard P. Hiskes

Book Overview

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"