Policy shock : recalibrating risk and regulation after oil spills, nuclear accidents, and financial crises / edited by Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear, Kimberly D. Krawiec, and Jonathan B. Wiener.
Contributor(s): Balleisen, Edward J [editor.]
| Bennear, Lori S [editor.] | Krawiec, Kimberly D [editor.] | Wiener, Jonathan Baert [editor.].Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: xvii, 573 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316505816; 9781107140219.Subject(s): Emergency management | Risk management | Policy sciencesDDC classification: 363.348 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 363.348 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019625 |
I. The conceptual terrain of crises and risk perceptions -- Economic analysis, risk regulation, and the dynamics of policy regret / Lori S. Bennear -- Revised risk assessments and the insurance industry / Carolyn Kousky -- Understanding public risk perception and responses to changes in perceived risk / Elke U. Weber -- Focusing events, risk, and regulation / Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement -- The story of risk : how narratives shape risk communication, perception and policy / Frederick W. Mayer -- II. Case studies on offshore oil spills -- From Santa Barbara to the Exxon-Valdez : policy learning and the emergence of a new regime for managing oil spill risk / Marc Allen Eisner -- The Nordic model of offshore oil regulation : managing crises through a proactive regulator / Ole Andreas Engen and Preben H. Lindoe -- Reform in real time : evaluating reorganization as a response to the gulf oil spill / Christopher Carrigan -- III. Case studies on nuclear accidents -- Recalibrating risks of nuclear power : reactions to Tthree-Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima / Elisabeth Pate-Cornell -- Nuclear accidents and policy responses in Europe : comparing the cases of France and Germany / Kristian Krieger, Ortwin Renn, M. Brooke Rogers, and Ragnar Lofstedt -- Public attitudes and institutional changes in Japan following nuclear accidents / Atsuo Kishimoto -- IV. Case studies of financial crises -- Regulatory responses to the financial crises of the Great Depression : Britain, France and the United States / Youssef Cassis -- Financial decommodification : risk and the politics of valuation in U.S. banks / Bruce G. Carruthers -- Euro area risk (mis)management / Barry Eichengreen -- The regulatory responses to the global financial crisis : some uncomfortable questions / Stijn Claessens and Laura Kodres -- V. Conclusions -- Institutional mechanisms for investigating the regulatory implications of a major crisis : the commission of inquiry and the safety board / Edward J. Balleisen, Lori Bennear, David Cheang, Jonathon Free, Megan Hayes, Emily Pechar, and A. Catherine Preston -- Recalibrating risk : crises, learning, and regulatory change / Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, Kimberly Krawiec & Jonathan B. Wiener.