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050	1	4	_aGE 180 _bL429o 2013
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100	1		_aLayzer, Judith A.
245	1	0	_aOpen for business : _bconservatives' opposition to environmental regulation / _cJudith A. Layzer.
260			_aCambridge : _bMIT Press, _c©2013.
300			_a498 pages : _b22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt
337			_acomputer _bc
338			_aonline resource _bcr
440		0	_aAmerican and comparative environmental policy
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aDiscerning 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.
520			_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zUnited States.
650		4	_aMedio ambiente _916774 _xPolítica
650		0	_aConservatism _zUnited States.
650		4	_aConservatismo _zEstados Unidos _92747
650		0	_aEnvironmental law _zUnited States.
650		4	_aDerecho ambiental _96065
651		0	_aUnited States _xEnvironmental conditions.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xCondiciones ambientales _99135
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government.
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776			_z0-262-01827-6
906			_aBOOK
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