Open for business : conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation / / Judith A. Layzer

• Autore: Layzer Judith A
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (521 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7/05610973
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy - United States; Conservatism - United States; Environmental law - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Environmental conditions; United States Politics and government
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword: Conservative Ideas and Their Consequences -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Roadmap -- Chapter 2: Discerning the Impact of Conservative Ideas -- Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Change -- Promoting Policy Change -- Policy and Political Outcomes -- Using the Framework to Make Sense of Politics -- Chapter 3: The Environmental Decade and the Conservative Backlash, 1970 - 1980 -- Institutionalizing the Environmental Storyline -- The Rise of Antiregulatory Conservatism -- The Emergence of an Antiregulatory Storyline -- The Carter Administration -- Environmentalism and the Rise of Conservatism in the 1970s -- Chapter 4: Ronald Reagan Brings Conservatism to the White House -- The Antiregulatory Storyline Gains Traction -- Ronald Reagan Articulates a Conservative Public Philosophy -- Institutionalizing the Antiregulatory Storyline During President Reagan's First Term -- Reagan's Second Term -- Antiregulatory Ideas Gain a Foothold -- Chapter 5: Conservative Ideas Gain Ground Under George H. W. Bush -- Policy Learning about Pollution Control -- Popularizing the Antiregulatory Storyline -- Creating and Capitalizing on New Think Tanks -- Environmental Governance under President George H. W. Bush -- People First! -- Antiregulatory Ideas Make Progress in the Courts -- Environmental Protection Atrophies under George H. W. Bush -- Chapter 6: Bill Clinton Confronts a Conservative Congress -- Creating a Proenvironmental Context, with an Antiregulatory Twist -- Conservatives Step Up the War of Ideas -- A Conservative Congress Challenges Environmental Restrictions -- Making Air-Pollution-Control Policy More Restrictive, While Adding Flexibility -- Saving the Endangered Species Act by Making It More Permissive -- Preventing Action to Address Climate Change -- Conservative Ideas Advance in the Courts. ; Clinton's Compromises Fail to Quell Dissent -- Chapter 7: George W. Bush Advances Conservatives' Antiregulatory Agenda -- George W. Bush's Rhetoric on the Environment -- Creating an Antiregulatory Context through Appointments, Budgets, and Regulatory Centralization -- Conservatives Gain Clout in Congress -- Drifting on Air Pollution Control -- Making the Endangered Species Act More Permissive -- Preventing Action on Climate Change -- Bush Takes an Antiregulatory Position on Climate Change -- Quietly Undermining Environmental Protection -- Chapter 8: The Consequences of a Conservative Era -- Conservatives' Impact on Environmental Policy, 1970-2008 -- Conservatives' Political Impacts -- Environmental Politics and Policy under Obama -- Engineering a Progressive Transformation -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives' prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Examining conservatives' influence from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a set of increasingly sophisticated tactics--including the depiction of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp any of the nation's environmental statutes, they have influenced the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and their solutions. Layzer's analysis sheds light not only on the politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development of policy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Open for business
• ISBN: 1-283-74158-X; 0-262-30529-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828786403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II