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risk and public policy  

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  • The relationship between risk and public policy goes back to the 17th-century Prussian origins of scientific enquiry into policy and state science, as part of cameralist Policeywissenschaft (German for “public policy”). The systematic study of policy was to ensure the well-being of the local state and its subjects. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Risk and Public Policy]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/risk_and_public_policy

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