Introduction

Risk theory and education: Policy and practice

“…Risk is a central topic in the field of education, but Ulrich Beck’s neologism—the risk society—has become the lingua franca across an extraordinarily wide and diverse range of scholarship: politics (Sidnell, 2004), security (Seddon et al., 2008), social work (Webb, 2006), business regulation (Alemmano et al., 2013), climate change (Culver et al., 2011), criminology (Mythen and Walklate, 2011), terrorism (Aradau and Van Munster, 2007), welfare (Briggs, 2013), and youth (Woodman, 2009). These approaches capture the complexity of the varying factors that influence risk responses in different social and cultural contexts, revealing risk to be a requisite way of understanding contemporary uncertainties and our times.…”

Global risk governance: what role for public administrations: the paradigm of the EU food safety control and alert systems

“…So, the need to theorize and apply new legal tools aimed at preventing or reducing risks caused by economic activities has imposed itself as a complementary strategy to the traditional reparative protection from already occurred damages. Globalization of risks therefore ceased to be a topic of interest only for private law; it also asks public law scholars to theorize adequate models of global risk governance, whose core actors should not be problem solvers, but public administrations aimed at regulating and controlling the riskiest markets (Alemanno et al., 2013; Crowther and Aras, 2013; Lidskog et al., 2009; Lyall and Tait, 2005; Ortwin, 2008).…”

Reduction of Administrative Burdens for SMEs

“…In an effort of evaluating its own regulatory system on effectiveness and cost, the European Union (EU) has put on top of its political agenda the alleviation of administrative burdens (AB) on businesses (Alemanno, Den Butter, Nijsen, & Torriti, 2013). The range of the AB imposed on businesses can have significant consequences not only for business costs but also for the overall competitiveness and growth of the economy (Ntaliani, Costopoulou, & Sideridis, 2012).…”

“…Moreover, according to the agency theory, ABs regard part of the bonding costs. Bonding costs consist mainly of compliance costs, which also include the costs of informing the government, namely, ABs (Alemanno et al, 2013). The systematic measurement of the administrative costs is the prerequisite for reducing bureaucracy and safeguarding the prosperity of businesses.…”

“…The Polish and French models regard the measurement of information costs, contrary to the Dutch models that regard the measurement of substantive costs. Also, the SCM measures information costs and can make single policy case studies comparable and brings them under the same heading (Alemanno et al, 2013).…”