Regulatory Crisis

Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises

AvBridget M. Hutter,Sally Lloyd-Bostock

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Using a new concept - 'regulatory crisis' - this book examines how major crises may or may not affect regulation. The authors provide a detailed analysis of selected well-known disasters, tracing multiple interwoven sources of influence and competing narratives shaping crises and their impact. Their findings challenge currently influential ideas about 'regulatory failure', 'risk society' and the process of learning from disasters. They argue that interpretations of and responses to disasters and crises are fluid, socially constructed, and open to multiple influences. Official sense-making can be too readily taken at face value. Failure to manage risks may not be central or even necessary for a regulatory crisis to emerge from a disaster; and the impacts for the regulator can take on a life detached from the precipitating disaster or crisis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-11
Mått:157 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107180444

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Bridget M. Hutter is Professor of Risk Regulation in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a leading authority on risk regulation and her book publications include Compliance (1997); Regulation and Risk (2001); Organizational Encounters with Risk (Cambridge, 2005); and Anticipating Risks and Organizing Regulation (Cambridge, 2010). Sally Lloyd-Bostock is Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Birmingham and Director of the University's Institute of Judicial Administration. She is widely known for her influential work in psychology and law.

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'This is a careful and nuanced account of regulatory crisis that is both illuminating and surprising. Hutter and Lloyd-Bostock show how regulatory crises can emerge, fester or fade through the complex interplay of events, institutions and individuals. Their analysis eschews a bland narrative in favour of richness of detail that provides the reader with a depth and authority of insight.' Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne, Australia

Innehållsförteckning

1. Risk regulation and high profile disasters: regulatory crisis as a distinct phenomenon; 2. Regulatory environments preceding the crisis; 3. Recognizing disasters and crises: emergence and crystallisation; 4. The many shapes of regulatory crisis; 5. Official sense-making: inquiries and inquests; 6. Responses to inquiry findings: reacting and reorganizing; 7. Regulatory crises: recapitulations, conclusions and theoretical implications; Bibliography; Index.