The Walkerton water tragedy and Versailles banquet hall collapse: regulatory failure and policy change
McConnell, Allan and Schwartz, R. (2008) The Walkerton water tragedy and Versailles banquet hall collapse: regulatory failure and policy change. In: Governing after crisis : the politics of investigation, accountability and learning. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 208-231. ISBN 9780521712446
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The constant threat of crises such as disasters, riots and terrorist attacks poses a frightening challenge to Western societies and governments. While the causes and dynamics of these events have been widely studied, we know little about what happens following their containment and the restoration of stability. This volume explores 'post-crisis politics,' examining how crises give birth to longer term dynamic processes of accountability and learning which are characterised by official investigations, blame games, political manoeuvring, media scrutiny and crisis exploitation. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary crises, including Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Madrid train bombings, the Walkerton water contamination, Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia and the Boxing Day Asian tsunami, this is a ground-breaking volume which addresses the longer term impact of crisis-induced politics. Competing pressures for stability and change mean that policies, institutions and leaders may occasionally be uprooted, but often survive largely intact.
| Author(s): | McConnell, Allan and Schwartz, R. | Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 26364 |
| Keywords: | crises, disasters, riots, terrorist attacks, containment, restoration of stability, post-crisis politics, Political science (General) |
| Subjects: | Political Science > Political science (General) |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Government and Public Policy > Politics Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
| Depositing user: | Catriona Mccallum |
| Date deposited: | 22 Jul 2010 09:22 |
| Last modified: | 06 Nov 2019 04:33 |
| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26364 |
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