Talking Shops or Talking Turkey

Institutionalizing Consumer Representation in Risk Regulation

Bibliographic Data

ID5337198
AuthorsHenry Rothstein (0000-0001-7071-1244, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume32
Issue5
Pages582-607
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0895904805303203
OpenAlexW2143520563
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited19

Participative reforms to risk regulation are often argued to enhance the evidence base, improve the representation of the public interest, and build support for policy processes and outcomes. While rationales and mechanisms for participation have received most scholarly attention, less attention has been paid to the actual impact of participation on policy processes and outcomes. This article, therefore, considers the impacts of participation by examining the UK Food Standards Agency's (FSA) Consumer Committee, which was created in 2002 to institutionalize consumer representation within policy making, but which was disbanded as a failure in 2005. Using three case studies, the article identifies two broad institutional dimensions of regulation that shaped and constrained the committee's impact on the evidence base, policy outcomes and building support for policy, and contributed to its eventual failure. Those dimensions relate to the design and organization of regulatory regimes, and to the understandings and influence of regulatory actors

Economics · Evidence-based policy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public policy · Public relations · Regulatory agency · Social science · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Risk Perception and Management

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