The culture of risk regulation

Responses to environmental disasters

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7367004
AutoresSalvador Parrado (0000-0001-6600-5515, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas599-615
Fecha de publicación2018-09-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRegulation & Governance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rego.12214
OpenAlexW2889975141
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas41

Disasters challenge the equilibrium of regulatory regimes and make policy shifts more likely. Using an institutional theory of cultural biases and the concept of cultural “surprise”, this article analyses the direction and intensity of media argumentation in respect of policy shifts. Instead of assuming a demand for greater State intervention after dramatic focusing events, as suggested by other theoretical frames, cultural theory opens a variety of options that range from embracing regulatory responses from different cultural biases to the radicalization of current, but failing, instruments. The analysis of media reaction to the environmental disasters caused by the oil spills of Exxon Valdez (United States), Erika (France) and Prestige (Spain) shows that the demand for more hierarchy does not monopolize the overall argumentation. The change demanded often implies a radicalization of a particular prevalent view where the associated institutional setting is failing its supporters

Argumentation theory · Economics · Epistemology · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Prestige · Radicalization · Sociology · Surprise · Variety (cybernetics · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Psychology · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology