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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American and comparative environmental policyPublication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2013.Description: 498 pages : 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262018272
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.7/05610973 23
LOC classification:
  • GE 180 L429o 2013
Contents:
Discerning the Impact of Conservative Ideas -- The Environmental Decade and the Conservative Backlash, 1970-1980 -- Ronald Reagan Brings Conservatism to the White House -- Conservative Ideas Gain Ground Under George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton Confronts a Conservative Congress -- George W. Bush Advances Conservatives' Antiregulatory Agenda -- The Consequences of a Conservative Era.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discerning the Impact of Conservative Ideas -- The Environmental Decade and the Conservative Backlash, 1970-1980 -- Ronald Reagan Brings Conservatism to the White House -- Conservative Ideas Gain Ground Under George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton Confronts a Conservative Congress -- George W. Bush Advances Conservatives' Antiregulatory Agenda -- The Consequences of a Conservative Era.

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.

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