03178nam 2200589Ia 450 991082746200332120200520144314.01-4696-0270-90-8078-6911-2(CKB)2550000000065017(EBL)797772(OCoLC)762097525(SSID)ssj0000537652(PQKBManifestationID)11965799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537652(PQKBWorkID)10567411(PQKB)11623637(StDuBDS)EDZ0000243982(MdBmJHUP)muse23372(MiAaPQ)EBC797772(EXLCZ)99255000000006501720101217d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow local politics shape federal policy business, power, and the environment in twentieth-century Los Angeles /Sarah S. Elkind1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (284 p.)The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the stateDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1897-4 0-8078-3489-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: business interests, special interests, and the public interest -- Oil and water : the public and the private on southern California beaches, 1920-1950 -- Influence through cooperation : the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and air pollution control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954 -- Flood control and political exclusion at Whittier Narrows, 1938-1948 -- Private power at Hoover dam : utilities, government power, and political realism, 1920-1928 -- The triumph of localism : the rejection of national water planning in 1950 -- Conclusion : small government and big business in the mid-twentieth century.Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.<BR><BR>Los Angeles's struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has had over government. Revealing the huge disparities between big business groups and individual community members in power, influence, and the ability to participate in policy debates, Elkind shLuther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.Environmental policyCaliforniaCaliforniaEconomic policy20th centuryCaliforniaPolitics and government20th centuryEnvironmental policy333.91009794Elkind Sarah S.1963-1710814MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827462003321How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy4101703UNINA