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Environmental Agencies in the United States
The Enduring Power of Organizational Design and State Politics
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2020
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Each state's physical environment, economy, and politics demands a unique approach to environmental enforcement. In some states, industry works closely with regulators to construct rules that protect state economic interests. In other states, regulators are more at odds with industry, arguing that there can be no cost placed on access to clean air and water. While we have long-considered powerful legislatures and governors the pilots of environmental enforcement behavior in the states, focusing on elected officials ignores the pivotal role environmental agencies and their employees play in determining the overall direction of environmental policy through day-to-day enforcement decisions—decisions to negotiate with industry or to stand firm. In Environmental Agencies in the United States, the author looks closely at the mandates assigned to environmental agencies and how those mandates mold agency understanding of the purpose of environmental enforcement. In arguing the importance of agency structure, organizational norms, and the mediating effects of state politics, the author crafts a more nuanced explanation of the environmental policy variation that shapes the health of all Americans.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7347-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7348-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
189
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List of Tables and Figures No access
Preface No access
1 Environmental Agencies in the United States No access Pages 1 - 10
2 A Theory of Environmental Agency Design No access Pages 11 - 26
3 Environmental Enforcement in Combined Natural Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection Agencies No access
4 Environmental Enforcement in Combined Public Health and Environmental Protection Agencies No access
5 Environmental Enforcement in Mini-EPAs No access
6 The Dominance of Public Health and Conservation in Environmental Agencies No access
7 Do Agency Values Translate into Actions?: Evaluating the Effects of Agency Design on Enforcement Behavior No access
8 Organizational Capacity, Agency Design, and Environmental Enforcement No access
9 The Implications of a Theory of Environmental Agency Design No access
Appendix 1: Interview Methodology and Questionnaire No access Pages 153 - 156
Appendix 2: Summary Statistics and Data Sources for Analyses in Chapters 6–8 No access Pages 157 - 158
Appendix 3: Descriptions of Dataset and Independent Variables of Interest (Chapters 6–8) No access Pages 159 - 162
