
Democracy, Risk, and Community
Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism
Richard P. Hiskes(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 22. October 1998
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-512008-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Richard Hiskes is as erudite in the language of risk as he is in his first language of political theory. Accordingly, and as the title of this book indicates, the reader of Democracy, Risk, and Community is treated to a sophisticated and intellectually stimulating piece of work that traces the ontological development of the three concepts. * Journal of Risk Research * Much of the value of this book for risk researchers is to be found in Hiskes' comprehensive analyses of the central political concepts of consent, community, authority, rights, responsibility, identity and political participation and their relation to risk. * Journal of Risk Research * Hiskes' fluency in both the languages of risk and political theory encourages enlarged thinking beyond both cognitive horizons, and ensures that important shared ontological histories and interconnections are not overlooked. Hiskes does not shy away from encounters with the messiness and complexities of the real world of risk decision making and provides a wealth of institutional and policy critique based upon the unfulfilled demands that technological developments place upon the politics of risk. * Journal of Risk Research *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-512008-0 (9780195120080)
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Richard P. Hiskes
Democracy, Risk, and Community
Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism
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Associate Professor of Political ScienceAssociate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut