Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union Controlling Chaos

This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk and how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk.

Lina Svedin completed her Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science at Syracuse University. Svedin has extensive experience working with public administration practitioners and researchers around the world, supervising case study research, and teaching and training policy makers in crisis management. She has worked as a Special Advisor on crisis management for the Swedish Cabinet Office and Training Director at the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training located at the Swedish National Defence College. She has published several monographs and has edited a number of volumes on crisis management in European countries, including her most recent book, Organizational Cooperation in Crises (2009).
Adam Luedtke is 2009-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and Princeton University and Assistant Professor at Washington State University, Vancouver. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2006. Luedtke's research is on immigration, globalization and international organizations. He is the editor of Migrants and Minorities: the European Response and has also published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Governance, European Union Politics, Policy Studies Journal, International Migration, Comparative European Politics, and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Thad E. Hall is Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Institution of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah. He is the coauthor of the books Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy and Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting, as well as the author of Authorizing Policy. He also co-edited the book Election Fraud and has published numerous articles on election administration and reform.