TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - Theorizing and generalizing about risk assessment and regulation through comparative nested analysis of representative cases JO - Law and policy A1 - Swedlow, Brendon A1 - Kall, Denise A1 - Zhou, Zheng A1 - Hammitt, James K. A1 - Wiener, Jonathan B. SP - 236 EP - 269 VL - 31 IS - 2 N2 - This article provides a framework and offers strategies for theorizing and generalizing about risk assessment and regulation developed in the context of an on-going comparative study of regulatory behavior. Construction of a universe of nearly 3,000 risks and study of a random sample of 100 of these risks allowed us to estimate relative U.S. and European regulatory precaution over a thirty-five-year period. Comparative nested analysis of cases selected from this universe of ecological, health, safety, and other risks or its eighteen categories or ninety-two subcategories of risk sources or causes will allow theory-testing and -building and many further descriptive and causal comparative generalizations. KW: Hyperthermia in automobiles

LA - en SN - 0265-8240 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9930.2009.00296.x ID - ref1 ER -