CRIM 3654 Chapter Notes -Food Security, Social Fact, Efficient-Market Hypothesis
13 Dec 2013
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Assessing security needs and security solutions: democracy in action. Primary security and other basic democratic goods are more likely to be achieved, maintained, and guaranteed by measures that rely on and build up horizontal links among citizens, rather than vertical state-citizen relations of surveillance. We don"t usually act on the basis of the worst fear or the worst risk. Two steps to this process: 1) assess our security needs, 2) evaluate different means of meeting those needs. We are aware of alternative ways of providing and guaranteeing security that do less harm to our other goals and values than letting professionals dominate our lives. Security is not a noun it is not something we can have more of or less of. Studies show that it is possible to devise mechanisms that maximize democracy, cultural pluralism, and neighbourliness while at the same time increasing safety and security.
