Government Risk Regulation

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 545, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-34

  Pollak, Robert A ^a  

^a University of StLouis

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EID: 0030544574     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296545001003     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. John D. Graham, Laura C. Green, and Marc J. Roberts, In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 68.
2. Stephen Breyer, Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).
3. Sheila Jasanoff, Risk Management and Political Culture (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1986), p. 26.
4. Deborah G. Mayo and Rachelle D. Hollander, eds., Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
5. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, “Reductionist Approaches to Risk,” in Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management, ed. Deborah G. Mayo and Rachelle D. Hollander (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 220.
6. Mary Douglas, “Risk as a Forensic Resource,” in Risk, ed. Edward J. Burger, Jr. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), p. 8.
7. Burger, ed., Risk, pp. vii-xiii.
8. Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. 8-9.
9. Mary Douglas, Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1985), p. 31.
10. Graham, Green, and Roberts, In Search of Safety, p. 177.
11. Breyer, Breaking the Vicious Circle, p. 61.
12. Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995); idem, “Objectivity as Standardization: The Rhetoric of Impersonality in Measurement, Statistics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis,” in Rethinking Objectivity, ed. Allan Megill (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 197-237.
13. Sheila Jasanoff, “American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgment of Risk,” in Risk, ed. Burger, pp. 63-64.
14. Breyer, Breaking the Vicious Circle, pp. 33, 36.