Precautionary Politics and Policy Process: Comparative Analysis of Environmental Risk Regulations

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07277
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University (2017); Waseda University (2016)
• Principal Investigator: HAYAKAWA Yuki 関西学院大学, 法学部, 助教 (20775853)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 環境リスク / 規制政策 / 政治制度 / 規制行政 / 比較政治 / 化学物質政策 / 日本 / ＥＵ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focuses on the precautionary politics and policy process, especially the environmental risk regulations in the EU and Japan. This study uses an analytical framework focusing on institutional factors. This framework determines the effects of a regulatory agency's authority on the regulation of firms and implementation of the policy on the policy's outcomes. A regulatory agency's authority consists of the historical development of institutions. The case study shows that the differences of regulatory agency's role made the difference of regulations.

Free Research Field

政治学