Democracy by disclosure : the rise of technopopulism /
"In December 1999, the Institute of Medicine shocked the nation by reporting that as many as 98,000 Americans died each year from mistakes in hospitals - twice the number killed in auto accidents. Instead of strict rules and harsh penalities to reduce those risks, the institute called for a sys...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Governance Institute/Brookings Institution Press
©2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvbtzkk6 |
Table of Contents:
- The power of publicity
- Accounting for toxic pollution
- Food labeling to reduce disease
- An epidemic of medical errors
- Disclosure as social policy
- Appendix : The architecture of disclosure systems.