Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State
Vast changes in U.S. environmental policy from the New Deal through the Reagan administration have occurred that shed light on the nature of the American regulatory state. This book focuses on the sweeping transformation of regulatory policymaking that took place around 1970. The rise of social regulation and the advent of public interest movement during the 1960s and 1970s led to a significant change in policy outcomes, as the influence of governmental actors and political activists increased at the expense of business. By homing in on two specific areas, pesticide regulation and air pollution control, this study attempts to describe and explain these changes.

This book is distinguished by its explanation of the transformation to the new system, its understanding of the way the new regulatory arrangements affect policy outcomes, and, most important, its explicit consideration of recent controversies in empirical political theory. The results provide an assessment of both the strengths and the weaknesses of the new institutionalism as a theoretical approach to studying domestic public policy in the United States. The regime framework developed here is designed to emphasize the multiplicity of forces behind public policy. This volume will be of interest to students of the American policy process, environmental policy and regulation, and theories of the American state, in academia, government, and the environmental policy community.

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Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State
Vast changes in U.S. environmental policy from the New Deal through the Reagan administration have occurred that shed light on the nature of the American regulatory state. This book focuses on the sweeping transformation of regulatory policymaking that took place around 1970. The rise of social regulation and the advent of public interest movement during the 1960s and 1970s led to a significant change in policy outcomes, as the influence of governmental actors and political activists increased at the expense of business. By homing in on two specific areas, pesticide regulation and air pollution control, this study attempts to describe and explain these changes.

This book is distinguished by its explanation of the transformation to the new system, its understanding of the way the new regulatory arrangements affect policy outcomes, and, most important, its explicit consideration of recent controversies in empirical political theory. The results provide an assessment of both the strengths and the weaknesses of the new institutionalism as a theoretical approach to studying domestic public policy in the United States. The regime framework developed here is designed to emphasize the multiplicity of forces behind public policy. This volume will be of interest to students of the American policy process, environmental policy and regulation, and theories of the American state, in academia, government, and the environmental policy community.

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Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State

Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State

by George Hoberg
Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State

Pluralism By Design: Environmental Policy and the American Regulatory State

by George Hoberg

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Vast changes in U.S. environmental policy from the New Deal through the Reagan administration have occurred that shed light on the nature of the American regulatory state. This book focuses on the sweeping transformation of regulatory policymaking that took place around 1970. The rise of social regulation and the advent of public interest movement during the 1960s and 1970s led to a significant change in policy outcomes, as the influence of governmental actors and political activists increased at the expense of business. By homing in on two specific areas, pesticide regulation and air pollution control, this study attempts to describe and explain these changes.

This book is distinguished by its explanation of the transformation to the new system, its understanding of the way the new regulatory arrangements affect policy outcomes, and, most important, its explicit consideration of recent controversies in empirical political theory. The results provide an assessment of both the strengths and the weaknesses of the new institutionalism as a theoretical approach to studying domestic public policy in the United States. The regime framework developed here is designed to emphasize the multiplicity of forces behind public policy. This volume will be of interest to students of the American policy process, environmental policy and regulation, and theories of the American state, in academia, government, and the environmental policy community.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275941260
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/19/1992
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile: 1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

GEORGE HOBERG is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. / He is the author of numerous articles on American and comparative environmental policy.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The New Deal Regulatory Regime
The Rise of the Pluralist Regulatory Regime
The Transformation of Air Pollution Regulation, 1969-1975
The Institutionalization of Legalism: Air Pollution, 1975-1980
The Transformation of Pesticide Regulation: 1969-1975
Regime Vulnerability and Policy Retrenchment: Pesticide Regulation, 1975-1980
Reaganism Confronts Legalism
Conclusion: Pluralism by Design
Bibliography
Index

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