Download or read book Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union written by A. Luedtke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.