Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The Risk Society

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4. Objective Differences

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5. Immigration, Security, and Social Risk Perception

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6. Food Safety, Health, and Biological Risk Perception

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7. Flooding, Disaster Prevention, and Environmental Risk Perception

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8. Election Technology and Election Fraud

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9. Conclusions

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10. Back Matter

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Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.

• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• globalization
• Government
• immigration
• migration
• Policy

LINA SVEDIN completed her Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science at Syracuse University, USA.
 
ADAM LUEDTKE is 2009-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Niehaus Centre for Globalization and Governance, USA and Princeton University, and an Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Utah.
 
THAD E. HALL is Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Institution of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah, USA.  

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