Understanding risk governance: Introducing sociological neoinstitutionalism and foucauldian governmentality for further theorizing

• Main Author: LIM, Wee Kiat
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: governmentality; risk; risk governance; sociological neoinstitutionalism; Risk Analysis; Theory, Knowledge and Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cmp_research/3; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=cmp_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article traces the career of risk across prominent theoretical approaches by highlighting their key assumptions and premises, specifically the technical approach found in the physical sciences, and economics, psychology, and sociology in the social sciences. In each discipline, the strengths an...