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Foundations of Risk Regulation: Science, Decision-Making, Policy Learning and Institutional Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Giandomenico Majone
Giandomenico Majone*
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European University Institute
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The long subtitle of this paper, appearing in the first issue of the EJRR – a publication which fills a serious gap in the scholarly literature of the old continent – identifies what I take to be the key terms of the current debate on risk regulation. It is impossible to understand the evolution of risk regulation over the last three decades in Europe and the United States without having a good grasp of how these concepts, and their corresponding practices, interact. How, for example, does a particular institutional design affect the way scientific uncertainties are resolved? What decision rules are appropriate in situations of high scientific uncertainty? Which constitutional principles facilitate policy learning and accountability in the regulation of risk?

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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 5 - 19
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