Setting Safety Standards - Regulation In The Public And Private Sectors, Like...

by Ross E. Cheit

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Setting Safety Standards - Regulation In The Public And Private Sectors, ISBN 0520415183, ISBN-13 9780520415188, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this highly original and meticulously researched comparison of public and private standards-setting, Ross E. Cheit questions the old maxim that government-set safety standards are too severe while those set by the private sector are too lenient. Identifying the comparative institutional advantages of each arrangement through four paired case studies of grain elevators, woodstoves, aviation fire safety, and gas space heaters, he finds instead that some private standards are surprisingly strict, while government is better positioned to survey real-world experience and sponsor research likely to improve standards-setting. Setting Safety Standards challenges those political scientists who argue that only public institutions can advance the public interest in the controversial field of health and safety. Cheit draws attention to such little-known organizations as Underwriters Laboratories and the National Fire Protection Association, private-sector alternatives to the government regulation so frequently criticized as time-consuming, inflexible, and unreasonable. These organizations, he shows, play a far more significant role in regulation than most federal agencies, even though the standards they develop are widely—and often mistakenly—assumed to be less concerned with due process than government standards and often unduly lax.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520415188
• Condition: Fine

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