Democracy, risk, and community
Subtitle: technological hazards and the evolution of liberalism
By: Richard P. Hiskes.
Series: Environmental ethics and science policy series; Environmental ethics and science policy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Technology -- Risk assessment.; Technology -- Social aspects.; Technology and state.
Description: This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. This book treats especially the concepts of consent, community, authority, rights, responsibility, identity, and political participation.

The meaning of each of these ideas has been altered by modern technological risks, and coping with risk will require that liberal societies redefine what these most basic concepts and political principles are to mean in political practice and policy making. This book will interest philosophers and political theorists as well as policy analysts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.