Environmental Agencies in the United States: The Enduring Power of Organizational Design and State Politics

Author:   JoyAnna Hopper
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498573474


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   15 April 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   JoyAnna Hopper
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781498573474


ISBN 10:   1498573479
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   15 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Environmental Agencies in the United States Chapter 2: A Theory of Environmental Agency DesignChapter 3: Environmental Enforcement in Combined Natural Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection Agencies Chapter 4: Environmental Enforcement in Combined Public Health and Environmental Protection Agencies Chapter 5: Environmental Enforcement in Mini-EPAsChapter 6: The Dominance of Public Health/Conservation Programs and Approaches in Environmental Agencies Chapter 7: Do Agency Values Translate into Actions?Chapter 8: Organizational Capacity, Agency Design, and Environmental EnforcementChapter 9: The Implications of a Theory of Environmental Agency Design

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JoyAnna Hopper's welcome assessment of state environmental agency structures, norms, and values fills several important gaps in the literature on U.S. environmental policy and politics. She applies organizational design theory and uses agency documents, enforcement data, interviews, and case studies to explain what has long been wide and sometimes inexplicable variation among the states in how environmental functions are organized and carried out, often with notably different impacts. Its findings offer valuable insights into how well-chosen organizational designs as well as critical decisions about agency staffing, norms, and priorities can help to improve environmental policy implementation and therefore environmental quality and public health in the fifty states. --Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Dr. Hopper has ably detailed an important aspect of environmental federalism: that organizational structure matters, and matters a lot. All too often scholars look outside of an organization when exploring what makes programs effective. In this engaging book with extensive research using qualitative and quantitative methods, Hopper tells the story of state-level agencies that struggle with multiple, conflicting mandates; staff who have different organizational priorities as well as different values. The result is a must-read for students and scholars of intergovernmental relations, environmental federalism, policy implementation, or organizational dynamics in public environmental agencies. --Denise Scheberle, University of Colorado - Denver With Congress gridlocked since the 1990s, much of the action in environmental policy has been in the states. JoyAnna Hopper gives us a detailed, insightful examination of the challenges faced by state environmental agencies today--especially in terms of how agency design shapes enforcement. Recommended for all students of U.S. environmental policy. --Christopher McGrory Klyza, Middlebury College


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JoyAnna Hopper is assistant professor of politics at Sewanee: The University of the South.

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