The privatization of risk

Public Culture

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 257-263

  Calhoun, Craig ^a  

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EID: 33745020676     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2006-001     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents, rev. ed. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999).
2. For another example of how the probabilities of accidents are embedded in organizational design, see Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
3. Craig Calhoun, "A World of Emergencies: Fear, Intervention, and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Order: The 2004 Sorokin Lecture," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 41 (2004): 373-95.
4. Ulrich Beck, The Risk Society (London: Sage, 1992).
5. Calhoun, "World of Emergencies."
6. See Jacob Hacker, Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
7. Also see, by the same author, The Great Risk Shift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).