caa a22 4500 388061391 CHVBK 20180307125121.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00455.x doi S0017257X00004462 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00455.x Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World [Elektronische Daten] OUR CONCLUSION, IN PART I,* WAS THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THE expert/lay dichotomy as the basis for understanding risk perception, whilst essential, is not going to be easy. We argued that: 1) Objectivism (the idea that we can clearly distinguish between what the risks really are and what people variously and erroneously believe them to be) has to give way to constructivism (the idea that risk is inherently subjective: something that we project onto whatever it is that is ‘out there'). 2) To impose a single definition of what the problem is, which is what so much of policy analysis and science-for-public-policy does, is to exclude all those who happen not to share that particular way of framing things. Since people are unlikely to support a policy that is aimed at solving what they do not see to be the problem, approaches that insist on singularity (and on single metrics — cost: benefit analysis, for instance, probabilistic risk assessment, qualityadjusted life years and so on) will inevitably be low on consent, surprise-prone, unref lexive, brittle and undemocratic. Thompson Michael Rayner Steve Ney Steven Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/3(1998-07), 330-354 0017-257X 33:3<330 1998 33 GOV https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00455.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00455.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thompson Michael NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rayner Steve NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ney Steven NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 33/3(1998-07), 330-354 0017-257X 33:3<330 1998 33 GOV CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge