Calculating Political Risk

ISBN-13: 9781844077014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

Catherine Althaus

Opis

This powerful new book is the first to ever examine the hard edge of how political risk is calculated and used in decision making. It opens with an outline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk, a section on the various disciplinary understandings of risk, the risk society concept and how risk has come to be so prominent in the context of environmental disaster and terrorism. The book then defines political risk and looks at its manifestations in the public sector from project to high-level political risk. It also looks at risk identification versus risk management and the various processes at work.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Emergence and Salience of Risk * Defining Political Risk * Risk Identification Vs Risk Management * Talking About Risk: What the Practitioners Say * Peaceful Planning * Mad Cow Madness * Serious Security: Responding to September 11 * Plans, Cows and Planes: Poitical Risk Analysis Compared * Conclusion: Where to From Here? * Index

O autorze

Catherine Althaus is an assistant Professor at the University of Victoria in Canada. Prior to this she was an ANZSOG (Australia and New Zealand School of Government) Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Political Science Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. She was also a University Medallist and an Associate Fellow with the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane. Althaus was a former official of the Queensland Treasury Department and Queensland Office of the Cabinet, having worked as a policy officer and research assistant to directors-general of both agencies. Her present research interests focus on public policy and public administration as well as bioethics, leadership in the public service and the interface between politics and religion. She recently co-authored the fourth edition of the Australian Policy Handbook with Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis, and has published articles in Risk Analysis and The Canberra Times.