Open for Business Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation

Name: Open for Business Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation
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ISBN: 9780262526029

ISBN-10: 0262526026

ISBN-13: 9780262526029

Edition: 2012

Authors: Judith A. Layzer, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Michael E. Kraft

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Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of thefederal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They havepromoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragileearth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challengesto 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 todismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Examiningconservatives' influence from the Nixon era to…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/10/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.86" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Judith A. Layzer is assistant professor of environmental policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on U.S. environmental politics, particularly on the role of science and the use of ecosystem management and other collaborative approaches to environmental policy.