ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses the book’s findings in comparative perspective. It maps and explains variety in administrators’ embrace of risk analysis across three policy domains in Germany and the EU. The cases display contextually patterned interaction dynamics between instrumental problem-solving, legitimacy-seeking, and power-seeking orientations towards risk analysis. These interactions range from the reinforcement of historically-derived central steering in food safety controls through tight risk-based inspection coordination, via the risk-based negotiation of the allocation of decision-making powers in flood prevention in the slipstream of soaring collective action desires, to rather existential legitimacy-seeking efforts of statutory work safety inspectorates through coordinated risk analysis.
