Overview
- Examines how the use of power and expertise shapes risk communication within the policy context
- Extends current understanding of social amplification of risk from the power and expertise perspective
- Develops understanding of policy making in emerging risk arena
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- risk
- risk communication
- public debates
- policy making
- policy inquiry
- expertise and interpretation
- social amplification of risk
- power
- expertise and risk communication
- the smoking debate
- expertise and policy making
- MMR vaccine
- the MMR vaccine debate
- Wakefield
- Sugar debate
- policy evaluation risk communication framework
- expertise and policy regulation
- Social amplification of risk framework (SARF)
- communication and trust
- public health and safety
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Power and Risk in Policymaking
Book Subtitle: Understanding Public Health Debates
Authors: Josephine Adekola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19314-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19313-3Published: 04 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19314-0Published: 22 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 127
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, British Politics, Political Communication, Development and Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Policy