accountability

occupation / innovator as

association football player

nationality

British

is made more difficult by the probabilistic nature of risks where no-one is to blame.

the probablistic nature of modern risks presents special problems in assigning blame and in apportioning justice. If we are all responsible, if 'everyone is cause and effect,' then there is no responsibility and there are no real causes. The invisible, intangible nature of modern threats makes the problem all the fuzzier. In the clouds of such ambiguity powerful organizations evade political accountability, promote more risk production, and dismiss critics as irrational and emotional' (review of Beck's Risk Society Lee Clarke)

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