Bureaucrats Politics And The Environment

Author : Richard W. Waterman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972514
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucrats, Politics And the Environment written by Richard W. Waterman and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-03-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bureaucracy in the United States has a hand in almost all aspects of our lives, from the water we drink to the parts in our cars. For a force so influential and pervasive, however, this body of all nonelective government officials remains an enigmatic, impersonal entity. The literature of bureaucratic theory is rife with contradictions and mysteries. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment attempts to clarify some of these problems. The authors surveyed the workers at two agencies: enforcement personnel from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and employees of the New Mexico Environment Department. By examining what they think about politics, the environment, their budgets, and the other institutions and agencies with which they interact, this work puts a face on the bureaucracy and provides an explanation for its actions.

Author : David Demortain
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026253794X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Bureaucracy written by David Demortain and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment–risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.

Author : Robert Paehlke
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Leviathan written by Robert Paehlke and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone wishing to explore the cutting edge of environmental policy and management will find this book an invaluable tool. - The Honourable David Anderson, Minister of Environment, Government of Canada, 1999-2004

Author : Morton H. Halperin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815734107
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy written by Morton H. Halperin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy—civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers—and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. The revised edition includes new examples of bureaucratic politics from the past three decades, from Jimmy Carter's view of the State Department to conflicts between George W. Bush and the bureaucracy regarding Iraq. The second edition also includes a new analysis of Congress's role in the politics of foreign policymaking.

Author : John Baden
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472100101
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy Vs. Environment written by John Baden and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes the assumption that bureaucrats can best manage the environment

Author : Marissa Martino Golden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231106971
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Motivates Bureaucrats? written by Marissa Martino Golden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Political Science Quarterly

Author : Randy T. Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598132281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Unbound written by Randy T. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature? Developing answers to these questions and developing implications of those answers are our purposes in this book. Two themes guide us--political ecology and political entrepreneurship. Combining these two concepts, which we develop in some detail, leads us to recognize that sometimes in their original design and certainly in their implementation, major U.S. environmental laws are more about opportunism and ideology than good management and environmental improvement. Will America enact environmental policies based on sound principles? The authors of Nature Unbound are cautiously optimistic.

Author : Robert Paehlke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852931650
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Leviathan written by Robert Paehlke and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lydia Andler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026201274X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managers of Global Change written by Lydia Andler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.

Author : Craig W. Thomas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262264938
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Landscapes written by Craig W. Thomas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-12-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political scientists have long been concerned about the tension between institutional fragmentation and policy coordination in the U.S. bureaucracy. The literature is rife with examples of agencies competing with each other or asserting their independence, while cooperation is relatively rare. This is of particular importance in policy areas such as biodiversity, where species, habitats, and ecosystems cross various agency jurisdictions. Bureaucratic Landscapes explores the reasons for the success and failure of interagency cooperation, focusing on several case studies of efforts to preserve biodiversity in California. The book examines why public officials tried to cooperate and the obstacles they faced, providing indirect evidence of policy impacts as well. Among other topics, it examines the role of courts in prompting agency action, the role of scientific knowledge in organizational learning, and the emergence of new institutions to resolve collective-action problems. Notable findings include the crucial role of environmental lawsuits in prompting agency action and the surprisingly active role of the Bureau of Land Management in resource preservation.