Regulating risk : how private information shapes global safety standards / Rebecca L. Perlman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perlman, Rebecca L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Safety regulations.

Industrial safety--Law and legislation.

Industrial safety.

Foreign trade regulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This text offers an explanation for how companies create barriers to domestic competition and international trade. The book will appeal to an academic audience interested in regulation, trade, and government-business relations. This includes those in the political science, public policy, economics, law, and science and technology fields.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1 The Informational Origins of Regulatory Barriers

1.1 The Demand for Regulation

1.2 The International Solution

1.3 The Argument in Brief

1.4 Contributions

1.5 Outline of Book Chapters

2 Private Information in the Regulation of Risk

2.1 An Overview of Information Asymmetries

2.2 Asymmetries at the Extreme: The Regulation of Aerospace

2.3 A Consistent Theme: Consumer Product Regulation

2.4 Timely Delays? Information Provision in Pharmaceutical Regulation

2.5 Indefinite Delays: Industrial Chemicals and the Black Box of Private Information

2.6 Not Just a National Problem

2.7 Anticipating Bias

3 A Theory of Regulatory Barriers

3.1 What Do Firms Want?

3.2 The Preference for Stringent Standards

3.3 Seeking a Sympathetic Ear

3.4 The Private Benefits of Precaution

3.5 The Public Benefits of Precaution

3.6 Explaining the Adoption of Precaution

3.7 How This Creates Barriers to Competition and Trade

3.8 The Shortcomings of International Standards

3.9 Testable Implications

4 Seeking Stricter Standards

4.1 The Pharmaceutical Industry

4.2 The Agrochemical Industry

4.3 Conclusion

5 How Precaution Begets Bias

5.1 Why Agrochemicals?

5.2 US Agrochemical Regulation: Historical Background

5.3 The Precautionary Coalition

5.4 US Regulation Today

5.5 Evaluating How US Regulations Have Changed under Precaution

5.6 Discussion

5.7 Precaution Beyond Pesticides

5.8 Going International

6 The Internationalization of Bias

6.1 Codex Alimentarius Commission: The Basics

6.2 The Politics of Codex

6.3 How the Standards are Made

6.4 Pesticides, Precaution, and the Periodic Review

6.5 Who's Afraid of the Periodic Review?.

6.6 Empirical Analysis

6.7 Discussion

7 Challenging Barriers

7.1 Nontariff Barriers: Reexamining Sources and Solutions

7.2 Refining Theories of Regulation

7.3 Normative Implications

7.4 Identifying Policy Improvements

7.5 Conclusion

Statistical Appendix

A.1 Robustness Checks for Chapter 5

A.2 Robustness Checks for Chapter 6

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 13, 2023).

ISBN:

1-009-29191-2

1-009-29188-2

OCLC:

1374428615