Democracy, Risk, and Community

Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism

Bibliographic Data

ID20024574
AuthorsRichard P Hiskes (corresponding author)
Year1998
Pages197
Publication date1998-10-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocracy, risk, and community (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195120080.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388351618
ISBN9780195120080
Open LibraryOL688708M
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This controversial book explores the connection between technological risk and basic concepts of liberal political theory and practice. Arguing that modern risks are emergent and therefore not reducible to individual actors or events, Hiskes demonstrates how risks challenge the most basic concepts of liberal political theory and democratic politics, including the ideas of consent, authority, rights, and moral responsibility. He argues forcefully that successful policy for risk depends on understanding the dynamic between risk and liberal concepts

Connection (principal bundle) · Democracy · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Risk assessment · Social aspects · Social aspects of Technology · Technology · Technology and state

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