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“jonathan b wiener”

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  • Policy Shock

    Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises

    Edited by Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Jonathan B. Wiener ...
    Policy Shock examines how policy-makers in industrialized democracies respond to major crises. After the immediate challenges of disaster management, crises often reveal new evidence or frame new normative perspectives that drive reforms designed to prevent future events of a similar magnitude. Such responses vary widely - from cosmetically masking inaction, to creating stronger incentive systems, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Reality of Precaution

    Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe

    by Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt, Peter H. Sand ...
    The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case studies of a wide array of risks to health, safety, environment and security; a broad quantitative ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • International Relations in Political Thought

    Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War

    Edited by Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, Nicholas Rengger ...
    This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Beyond Right and Wrong

    The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients

    by Randall Kiser ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Let us endeavor to see things as they are, and then enquire whether we ought to complain. Whether to see life as it is, will give us much consolation, I know not; but the consolation which is drawn from truth if any there be, is solid and durable: that which may be derived from errour, must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet Langton (1758) Attorneys ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said

    The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision

    Edited by Jack M. Balkin ...
    Legal experts rewrite the landmark court decisionBrown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol of equality and civil rights.Its meaning, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Judges Against Justice

    On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack

    by Hans Petter Graver ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Causation in the Law

    by H. L. A. Hart, Tony Honoré ...
    An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense notions of causation in determining legal responsibility. ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Emergencies and the Limits of Legality

    Edited by Victor V. Ramraj ...
    Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that even the most well-meaning executive, armed with extraordinary powers, will abuse them. This inevitably ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • The Sense of Justice

    Empathy in Law and Punishment

    by Markus Dirk Dubber ...
    Series Book 71 - Critical America
    In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? ... Read more

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  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD