Regulating Risk

How Private Information Shapes Global Safety Standards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Rebecca L. Perlman, New Jersey) Perlman, Rebecca L. (Princeton University, Rebecca L Perlman

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When governments impose stringent regulations that impede domestic competition and international trade, should we conclude that this is a deliberate attempt to protect industry or an honest effort to protect the population? Regulating Risk offers a third possibility: that these regulations reflect producers' ability to exploit private information. Combining extensive data and qualitative evidence from the pesticide, pharmaceutical, and chemical sectors, the book demonstrates how companies have exploited product safety information to win stricter standards on less profitable products for which they offer a more profitable alternative. Companies have additionally supported regulatory institutions that, while intended to protect the public, also help companies use information to eliminate less profitable products more systematically, creating barriers to commerce that disproportionally disadvantage developing countries. These dynamics play out not only domestically but also internationally, under organizations charged with providing objective regulatory recommendations. The result has been the global legitimization of biased regulatory rules.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-30
Mått151 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009291927

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Rebecca L. Perlman is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Science Advances, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Legal Analysis. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford and a master's from the Fletcher School at Tufts. Her undergraduate degree is from Princeton, where she graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa.

'In a cogent, creative, and multi-method study deeply relevant to the emerging world of risk regulation, Rebecca Perlman has recast the locus of regulatory power. It rests with those who control information. The resulting interplay of firms and regulators both distributes power and creates implicit trade barriers, and what might look like intentional capture often arises instead from a battle over scientific information.' Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of Preventing Regulatory Capture and Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA