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

Such responses vary widely - from cosmetically masking inaction, to creating stronger incentive systems, requiring greater transparency, reorganizing government institutions and tightening regulatory standards. It considers how governments can prepare to learn from crisis events - by creating standing expert investigative agencies to identify crisis causes and frame policy recommendations.. Policy Shock examines how policy-makers in industrialized democracies respond to major crises. This book situates post-crisis regulatory policy-making through a set of conceptual essays written by leading scholars from economics, psychology and political science, which probe the latest

Breyer (1988-89) and Jack B. Current work examines boards of directors, organ donation and allocation systems, and the administrative process surrounding the Volcker Rule, a provision of Dodd-Frank. Balleisen is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. Bennear is an Associate Professor o

He received his J.D. Bennear is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at Duke University, North Caroline where she is also the Co-Director of the Rethinking Regulation Program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Faculty Lead in Energy Education at the Energy Initiative. from Yale University, Connecticut.Lori S. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, Massachusetts.Kimberly D. A historian of regulatory governance in the United States, his latest book is Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017). Current work examines boards of directors, organ donation and allocation systems, and the administrative process surrounding the Volcker Rule, a provision of Dodd-Frank. He served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2008, and co-chair of the World Congress on Risk in 2012. Weinstein (1987-88). (1987) and A.B. He co-directs the program on Rethinking Regulation at Duke. Breyer (1988-89) and Jack B. Her research cente