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Enforcing the law : the case of the Clean Water Acts / Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman.
- Title
- Enforcing the law : the case of the Clean Water Acts / Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman.
- Author
- Hunter, Susan, 1947-
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6403 .H86 1996 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | HV6403 .H86 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Waterman, Richard W.
- Description
- xii, 249 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Hunter and Waterman's important work is the most comprehensive analysis available of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement of the Clean Water Act and its amendments. The book uses extensive EPA data, including a survey of federaland state-level environmental officials, to examine enforcement from the perspective of government personnel. Emphasis is on what is done, how it is done, and why it is done. By combining detailed documentation of regulatory implementation with surveys of the views of federal and state officials, industry representatives, and environmental activists, this study illuminates a process of pragmatic enforcement - that is, the way bureaucrats actually do their jobs. The book examines the operation of pollution control policy over two decades and several presidential administrations; shows the pragmatic nature of regulatory enforcement, mixing adherence with due discretion; and considers the effectiveness of both punitive and incentive-based policies in different contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Bureaucracies, public administration, and public policy
- Uniform Title
- Bureaucracies, public administration, and public policy.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The water-quality problem: A study in diversity -- 2. The institutional setting -- 3. Pragmatic enforcement -- 4. Bureaucrats and attitudes: The seeds of discretion -- 5. Bureaucratic discretion and hierarchical political control -- 6. Enforcement at the state level: Primacy and state organizational structures -- 7. Explaining variations in NPDES enforcement -- 8. Water outcomes: The neglected arena -- 9. Conclusions and recommendations.
- ISBN
- 1563246821 (alk. paper)
- 156324683X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96003676^
- OCLC
- 34282897
- SCSB-10180682
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library