STS 214 Quiz 3 explores key aspects of risk regulation as discussed by Shapiro and Glicksman, focusing on congressional choices, statutory triggers and standards, and the impact of regulatory costs. It assesses understanding of legislative frameworks and critiques in risk regulation.
The elimination of public input in the risk decision process
That the public demands be "filtered" through decision making tools that add rationality to the process
The abandonment of all regulations
That we return to the "default" risk regulators: the court and markets
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Bureaucratic discretion should be eliminated completely
We should just ignore these rare occurences
We should preserve bureaucratic discretion, while making regulator accountable
Regulations should use a strictly enforced cost-benefit analysis
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That costs of regulation not be considered
That costs of regulation cannot be measured, and thus cannot be required
That costs of regulation be taken into account by agencies
None of the above
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Risk and efficiency thresholds
Risk based thresholds
No threshold
Unreasonable risk threshold
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Secured a number of administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
Failed to secure administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
Lost interest in securing a number of administrative procedures that implement their rationality project
None of the above
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Must be taken seriously by pragmatists
Can be ignored by pragmatists
Is driven by political ideology
Is correct
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Statutory triggers and statutory standards
Statutory triggers and statutory limitations
Statutory limitations and statutory standards
Statutory standards and statutory impositions
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Decision making is limited by time, resources, and cognitive ablities
Decision makers should follow market discipline
Policy makers should carefully measure public opinion while making decisions
Real policy making about risk is "bounded" by political constraints
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That the comprehensive rationality should be the basis of risk management
That at degree of "muddling through" is inevitable in risk policy
"incremental decision making" is never appropriate
"incremental decision making" is merely disguised politics
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The promotion of public participation in risk decisions
The reduction of public participation in risk decisions, because of widespread public irrationality
Limiting the public participation to organized interest groups, only
None of the above
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Generally avoided product or substance phaseouts
Regularly imposed product or substance phaseouts
Never imposed product or substance phaseouts
Increased reliance on phaseouts since the onset of the environment movement
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Take costs into account as accurately as cost benefit analysis
Take costs into account, when required to by law
Take costs into account, but not in the manner prescribed by economic theory
None of the above
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Essential in pragmatic risk policy
Now possible thanks to modern computers
Impossible
None of the above
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Cost benefit and open ended standards
Open ended and constrained balancing standards
Constrained balancing and phaseout standards
Phaseout and cost benefit standards
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