Research Catalog

Title

Controlling technocracy : citizen rationality and the Nimby syndrome / Gregory E. McAvoy.

Author

McAvoy, Gregory E.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1999.

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Description

xi, 168 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

"In this exploration of citizen rationality, the tension between democracy and technocracy, and the link between public opinion and policy, McAvoy demonstrates that citizen opinion plays a constructive role in environmental policymaking."--Jacket.

Series Statement

American governance and public policy series

Uniform Title

American governance and public policy

Subject

• Land use > Citizen participation. > United States
• NIMBY syndrome > United States
• Public Policy
• Science
• Science and state > United States > Citizen participation
• Technology
• Technology and state > United States > Citizen participation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Elite policy networks and political control in policymaking -- ch. 3. The strategic state: hazardous waste siting through inducements and persuasion -- ch. 4. State officials and citizens: the siting deadlock -- ch. 5. Democratic governance and policymaking.

ISBN

• 0878407413 (pbk.)
• 0878407405 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^99018787^

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Harvard Library