Hazardous Liaisons
Risk, Power, and Politics in the Liberal State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330824 |
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| Authors | Richard P Hiskes (University of Connecticut, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257-273 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01898.x |
| OpenAlex | W2072376766 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
This article presents a new approach to interpreting and analyzing technological risks and evaluating their impact on policymaking in liberal societies. I argue that risks must be seen first as emergent phenomena that resist reduction for either explanatory or policy purposes to the individual persons, events, or decisions that constitute them. Second, risks are intrinsically political things, involving aspects of power and interest in ways that also make policy decisions difficult. As emergent and political phenomena, then, modern technological risks pose unique policy difficulties for societies steeped in the epistemological and political individualism of classical liberalism
Classical liberalism · Economics · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Individualism · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Political concepts, a reconstruction
Controversy, politics of technical decisions
Risk Management and Hazardous Waste
Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication
Bridging the Two Cultures of Risk Analysis 1, 2
Participation and Democratic Theory
Democracy, Risk, and Community
Science, Technology, and Policy Decisions
Risk and Rationality
Cultural Technological Futures
Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities
Knowledge vs. Nimby
Autonomous Technology
Citizen Participation and the Nimby Syndrome
Citizen Participation and the Nimby Syndrome
Contending discourses in the electric and magnetic fields controversy
Public Involvement in Hazardous Waste Siting Decisions
Two Faces of Power
| Highly cited | No |
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