Handling risk: Expertise and regulatory politics in Germany 1870-1913

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 16-22

  Lundgreen, Peter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HISTORY; PERSONNEL; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY;

GERMANY; GOVERNMENTS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; POLITICS; PRODUCT REGULATION; SCIENCE;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 0031099875     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/44.584645     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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2. J.Q. Wilson, Ed., The Politics of Regulation. New York, NY: Basic, 1980, pp. 386-387.
3. W. Fischer and P. Lundgreen, "The recruitment and training of administrative and technical personnel," in The Formation of National States in Western Europe, C. Tilly, Ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1975, pp. 545-558.
4. P. Lundgreen, "Die Vertretung technischer Expertise 'im Interesse der gesamten Industrie Deutschlands' durch den VDI 1856 bis 1890," in Technik, Ingenieure und Gesellschaft. Geschichte des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure 1856-1981, K.-H. Ludwig, Ed. Düsseldorf, Germany: VDI-Verlag, 1981, pp. 67-132.
5. P. Lundgreen, "Measures for objectivity in the public interest. The role of scientific expertise in the politics of technical regulation: Germany and the U.S., 1865-1916," in Standardization - Testing -Regulation. Studies in the History of the Science-Based Regulatory State (Germany and the U.S.A., 19th and 20th Centuries). Bielefeld, Germany: B. Kleine Verlag, 1986, pp. 62-66.
6. J. Büschenfeld, "Deutsche Flüsse oder deutsche Kloaken? Städtehygiene und Gewässerschutz in Preussen (1870-1918) zwischen Wasserversorgung und Abwasserbeseitigung." Dissertation. University of Bielefeld, 1994."