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Environmental Protection at the State Level

Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and Public Policy

Kenneth J. Meier
Series Editor

THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACY
Larry B. Hill, Editor

THE POLITICS OF DISSATISFACTION
Citizens, Services, and Urban Institutions
W. E. Lyons, David Lowery, and Ruth Hoogland DeHoog

THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BUREAUCRATS AND LEGISLATORS
Cathy Marie Johnson

THE POLITICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION
The States and the Divestiture of AT&T
Jeffrey E. Cohen

WOMEN AND MEN OF THE STATES
Public Administrators at the State Level
Mary E. Guy, Editor

ETHICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
H. George Frederickson, Editor

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AT THE STATE LEVEL
Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution
Evan J. Ringquist

THE POLITICS OF SIN
Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy
Kenneth J. Meier

Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and Public Policy

Environmental Protection at the State Level

Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution

Evan J. Ringquist

First published 1993 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ringquist, Evan J. 1962
Environmental protection at the state level: politics and progress in controlling pollution / Evan J. Ringquist.
p. cm. (Bureaucracies, public administration, and public policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-203-6.ISBN 1-56324-204-4 (pbk.)
1. PollutionGovernment policyUnited StatesStates.
2. Environmental policyUnited StatesStates.
3. Environmental protectionUnited StatesStates.
4. BureaucracyUnited StatesStates.
I. Title.
II. Series.
HC110.P55R56 1993
363.7'056'0973dc20
93-12298
CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563242045 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563242038 (hbk)

To Lois, Eric, Erling, and Laurie, without them, none of what I have accomplished would have been possible.

Contents

by Kenneth J. Meier

Chapter

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The M.E. Sharpe series "Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and Public Policy" is designed as a forum for the best work on bureaucracy and its role in public policy and governance. Although the series is open with regard to approach, methods, and perspectives, especially sought are three types of research. First, the series hopes to attract theoretically informed, empirical studies of bureaucracy. Public administration has long been viewed as a theoretical and methodological backwater of political science. This view persists despite a recent accumulation of first-rate research. The series seeks to place public administration at the forefront of empirical analysis within political science. Second, the series is interested in conceptual work that attempts to clarify theoretical issues, set an agenda for research, or provide a focus for professional debates. Third, the series seeks manuscripts that challenge the conventional wisdom about how bureaucracies influence public policy or the role of public administration in governance.

Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution falls into the first category. It is a first-rate study of bureaucracy and environmental policy and can serve as a blueprint for how studies of public policy should be designed. Professor Ringquist provides a comprehensive view of the environmental policy process, covering adoption, implementation, and an assessment of the impact of current policies. Too many studies of public policy examine only a portion of the policy process. The current study demonstrates what should be the cutting edge of public policy analysis. It links the politics of adoption to implementation decisions and both of these to the quality of the nation's environment. The study illustrates that the public administration side of public policy (implementation) is crucial to understanding environmental policy in the United States. It also illustrates how the politics of policy adoption shapes and guides public administration.

Environmental Protection at the State Level also contributes to the wave of new studies that reestablish state governments and state politics as central concerns in political science. Environmental policy is only one of many policies that simply would not exist were it not for the active and aggressive role of state agencies. State governments have redefined federalism in the past twenty years. In many policy areas they are the coequal of the federal government; in environmental policy states are the source of much leadership and innovation.

All students of public policy face an inherent dilemma: do I want to contribute to the theoretical literature of political science or do I want to make a contribution to the substantive policy area? Professor Ringquist demonstrates that a scholar can do both. The enforcement of environmental regulations and their impact on the quality of our air and water are key substantive issues in environmental policy. The author addresses them using the theories and methods of a political scientist. As a result Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution says something important to both students of environmental policy and political scientists. Professor Ringquist has not resolved in this book all the tensions between substantive public policy and political science. No single book can. But he has provided a solid foundation for the effort.

Kenneth J. Meier
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Why State Environmental Policy?

Many people who pick up this book are likely to hold one of three popular misconceptions concerning environmental regulation. The first misconception is that we fully understand the causes and consequences of environmental policy. Environmental protection has been a hot research topic on and off for over twenty years; what more could possibly be learned? The answer is that while we know a great deal about environmental politics at the federal level, we really know very little about the politics behind state environmental policy. We know even less about the consequences that environmental regulations have had for environmental quality (i.e., the extent to which these efforts have succeeded in protecting the environment). This book begins to fill these gaps in knowledge by analyzing state air and water quality regulations.

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