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By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural identifications have been destroyed, regardless of the ingenuity of the institutional form adopted. The absence of such bureaucratic mission results in green bureaucracies that are likely to fail in the pursuit of organisational goals. Examining motivations shows why cultural identifications within an organisation must be congruent with institutional structures so that these identifications can be established.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is an important book. Drawing on a wealth of original research including primary sources and extensive interviews, Robert McMahon provides the first comprehensive comparative study of the American and British environmental protection agencies with accounts of how they were established, their distinctive institutional and organizational features and their effectiveness. However, McMahon does more than simply analytically narrate these agencies' origins and work: he develops and persuasively defends a distinct theoretical analysis about these green bureaucracies as types of organizations shaped by their institutional design and internal cultural norms. The result is an original and impressive book which will be of interest of scholars and students of bureaucracy, the environment, and British and American politics. I recommend The Environmental Protection Agency highly. --Desmond King, Mellon Professor of American Government, Oxford University

The Environmental Protection Agency is an important book. Drawing on a wealth of original research including primary sources and extensive interviews, Robert McMahon provides the first comprehensive comparative study of the American and British environmental protection agencies with accounts of how they were established, their distinctive institutional and organizational features and their effectiveness. However, McMahon does more than simply analytically narrate these agencies origins and work: he develops and persuasively defends a distinct theoretical analysis about these green bureaucracies as types of organizations shaped by their institutional design and internal cultural norms. The result is an original and impressive book which will be of interest of scholars and students of bureaucracy, the environment, and British and American politics. I recommend The Environmental Protection Agency highly. Desmond King, Mellon Professor of American Government, Oxford University

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Robert McMahon is Lecturer in Politics at St John's College, Oxford. He holds an MA and M.Phil. from New College, Oxford and a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford. Rob worked as a Policy Analyst at HM Treasury from 1999 to 2001 dealing with transport spending and then poverty analysis. Rob teaches courses on US and UK government, political sociology and comparative government at Trinity College, Oxford.

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