ABSTRACT
This chapter specifies the book’s analytical framework from the perspective of risk analysis. As risk can be viewed both as a manageable event and as a decision-making heuristic, it offers a highly versatile analytical entry point for policymakers concerned with both problem-solving and polity policies. The chapter details how the logic of risk-based differentiation speaks to actors’ hopes of rational problem-solving (societal risk management) but also to attempts of rationalizing their own (institutional risk management) and others’ relative positions in the policy domain (governance by risk). The chapter thus elaborates and operationalizes the book’s typology for the subsequent comparative analysis.
