Regulating risks in the European Union : the co-production of expert and executive power / Edited by Maria Weimer and Anniek de Ruijter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruijter, Anniek de, editor.

Weimer, Maria, editor.

Series:

Hart studies in competition law.

Hart studies in competition law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--European Union countries.

Administrative agencies.

Environmental law--European Union countries.

Environmental law.

Executive power--European Union countries.

Executive power.

Public health laws--European Union countries.

Public health laws.

Risk assessment--European Union countries.

Risk assessment.

Risk management--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

A growing body of EU law and regulation is preoccupied with the protection of EU citizens from health and environmental risks. Which chemicals are safe and should be allowed on the market? How should the EU respond to public health emergencies, such as Ebola and other infectious diseases? Regulatory responses to these questions confront deep uncertainty, limited knowledge and societal contestation. In a time where the use of scientific expertise in EU policy-making is particularly contested, this book offers a timely contribution to both the academic and policy debate on the role of specialised expertise in EU public decision-making on risk and technology as well as on its intertwinement with executive power. It draws on insights from law, governance, political sciences, and science and technology studies, bringing together leading scholars in this field. Contributions are drawn together by a shared theoretical perspective, namely by their use of co-production as an analytical lens to study the intricate interplay between techno-scientific expertise and EU executive power. By so doing, this collection produces highly original insights into the development of the EU administrative state, as well as into the role of regulatory science in its construction. This book will be useful to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers working on risk regulation and the role of expertise in public decision-making

Contents:

1. Regulating Risks in the European Union: The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power

MARIA WEIMER AND ANNIEK DE RUIJTER

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives

2. Constitutions of Modernity: Science, Risk and Governable Subjects

SHEILA JASANOFF

3. Expert Executive Power, Administrative Constitutionalism and Co-production: Why They Matter

ELIZABETH FISHER

Part 2: Practices of Co-production

4. Recombinant Regulation: EU Executive Power and Expertise in Responding to Synthetic Biology

ELEN STOKES

5. Defining the Invisible: Between Soft Norms and Hard Realities in the European Regulation of Nanotechnologies

TANJA EHNERT

6. Mixing EU Security and Public Health Expertise in the Health Threats Decision

ANNIEK DE RUIJTER

7. Constituting Public Health Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Europe

SCOTT L GREER

8. Behavioural Expertise and Regulatory Power in Europe

HOLGER STRASSHEIM

Part 3: Rethinking Constitutionalism: Legitimacy and Accountability

9. Expertise as Justification: The Contested Legitimation of the EU 'Risk Administration'

MARIA WEIMER AND GAIA PISANI

10. Evolving Conceptions of Science and Legitimacy: Insights from American Administrative Law

CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON

11. Accountability and Co-production beyond Courts: The Role of the European Ombudsman

MARIA LEE

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781509912650

1509912657

9781509912643

1509912649

9781509912667

1509912665

OCLC:

986788619