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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Public Policy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
David Levi-faur
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday, 11.00-12.00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Amit Sheniak
Course/Module description:
This course will develop the concepts of the "risk state' and "risk governance" from various theoretical, comparative and historical approaches.
Course/Module aims:
This course will allow the students to understand, analyze and implement knowledge on risk and risk governance in their political and policy analysis
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
This course will allow the students to understand, analyze and implement knowledge on risk and risk governance in their political and policy analysis
Attendance requirements(%):
80
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Presentations by the students
Class discussions
Course/Module Content:
To be given in the first meeting of the course.
Required Reading:
Background Popular Text
Bernstein, P. L. (1996). Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk. New York: Wiley.
The Course Main Texts
Moss A. David, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, Harvard University Press, Cam. Mass, 2002
Hood C. Rothestein H. and Baldwin R. The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
Newell Peter and Peterson Mathew, Climate Capitalism: Climate Change and the transformation of Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Shamir Ronen. 2008 The Age of Responsibilization: On Market-Embedded Morality. Economy and Society 37, 1, 1-19
Hacker, Jacob, Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States. American Political Science Review, 98, 2004, pp 243-260
Additional Reading Material:
The History of Statistical Science and Risk
Desrosières, A. The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. Camille Naish tr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998
Porter, Theodore M.. The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Porter, Theodore M. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Ewald, F. ‘The return of Descartes’ malicious demon: an outline of a philosophy of precaution’, in T. Baker and J. Simon (eds) Embracing Risk , Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 273-301
Porter, T. M.. The rise of statistical thinking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Porter, T. M. Trust in numbers. The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995.
Critical Sociological Political Theory
Ulrich Beck, The Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, Sage, London, 1992,
Jasanoff S, Designs on nature: Science and democracy in Europe and the United States. New York: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Power Michael, Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007.
Cultural and Anthropological Inputs
Baker T. and Simon J. (Eds.) Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002.
Zelizer, V. Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States, Columbia University Press, 1979.
Douglas M and Wildawsky Aaron, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1983
Political Science
Vogel David, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and United States, Princeton University Press, 2012
Criminology
Richard Ericson, Aaron Doyle and Dean Barry, Insurance as Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Political and Social History
Temin, P. (Ed.). (1991). Inside the business enterprise. Historical perspectives on the use of information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Laura F. Spira, Michael Page, "Risk management: The reinvention of internal control and the changing role of internal audit", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 16 Iss: 4, 2003, pp.640 - 661
Legal Perspective
Elizabeth Fischer, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, Hart Publishing 2010.
Economic Perspective,
Kip Viscusi, Rational Risk Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
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