Laws of Fear: Acknowledgments

By Cass R. Sunstein. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After (2009, background): “Cass Sunstein is one prominent critic who now supports a limited precautionary principle (Sunstein 2005: chapter 5).”
Non-tariff barriers, integration and the transatlantic economy (2015, background): “These are both reasonable, but debatable, principles for evaluating uncertain prospects (Gollier et al., 2000; Sunstein, 2005).”
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government (2017, background): “SCT is an extremely popular explanation for conflicts over climate change and various other disputed risks, particularly among commentators who construct secondary interpretive accounts by synthesizing diverse findings from decision science (Sunstein, 2005, 2006, 2007).”
Animal sentience and the precautionary principle (2017, neutral): “The drawback to this incredible breadth is that it does not offer much in the way of detailed policy guidance, leading critics to suggest that it is unscientific, vacuous, vague, incoherent, paradoxical or ill-defined (e.g., Sunstein 2005; for responses, see Steel 2013, 2014).”
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus (2011, background): “…of nuclear power (Slovic, Flynn, and Layman 1991; Barke and Jenkins-Smith 1993); the toxicity of arsenic, radon, and other groundwater chemicals (Sunstein 2005); the health consequences of vaccinating school girls against the human papillomavirus (Kahan et al., forthcoming) – all have featured…”
A Core Precautionary Principle (2006, background): “68In a book that came out just as this article was going to press, Cass Sunstein worries that the “care little for gains” condition threatens to confine the RCPP to trivial cases, and this undermines the application to global warming (see Sunstein 2005, p. 112).”
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “An opposing view holds that individuals systematically mis-process risk information as a result of cognitive limits and biases (Sunstein 2005).”
Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication (2015, background): “…model, which asserts that ordinary members of the pubic lack the ability to reliably advance their expected utility because their assessment of risk information is constrained by cognitive biases and other manifestations of bounded rationality (Kahneman 2003; Sunstein 2005; Weber 2006).”
Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies (2010, background): “Although there are over 14 definitions of the precautionary principle (Sunstein, 2005; Feintuck, 2005), precaution can be understood as a preventative logic with two characteristics.”
When Risks Cannot Be Seen: Regulating Uncertainty in Emerging Technologies (2017, neutral): “These regulators are incentivized to reduce risks by adopting defensive postures following the “precautionary principle” (Kriebel et al., 2001; Sunstein, 2005), which states that, if an activity poses a potential public risk, in the absence of scientific consensus, the proponent of such activity…”