Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this pioneering work, David Vogel integrates environmental, consumer, and trade policy, and explicitly challenges the conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements to promote free trade invariably undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. Vogel demonstrates that liberal trade policies often produce precisely the opposite effect: that of strengthening regulatory...
Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become ...
Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business, the relationship of business to politics in the United States remains a highly antagonistic one, characterized by substantial mutual distrust. This adversarial relationship is both reflected and reinforced not only in American business ideology, but also in America's unique legalistic and confrontational style of regulation, the political strategies of the public interest movement, the American approach to American industrial policy, and the distinctive way Americans think about the subject of business ethics....
Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business, the relationship of business to politics in the United States remai...
These essays examine changes in Israel's political, social and economic institutions, and describe how Israeli culture and institutions are resisting convergence. They are in four categories: political institutions and organizations; political economy; ethnicity and religion; and public policy.
These essays examine changes in Israel's political, social and economic institutions, and describe how Israeli culture and institutions are resisting ...
This book explains the dynamics of conflict and cooperation over consumer and environmental regulation between the European Union and the United States. The pattern of E.U.-U.S. regulatory relations has important implications, not only for the United States and Western Europe, but for the entire glo
This book explains the dynamics of conflict and cooperation over consumer and environmental regulation between the European Union and the United State...
The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990, the book shows, global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal?
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The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the...