Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes : The Contested Languages of Social Regulation

Bruce A. Williams

ISBN 10: 0300075545 / ISBN 13: 9780300075540

Editore: Yale University Press Jun 1998, 1998

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Neuware - This book addresses the conundrum of environmental regulation by tracing its source to the competing characterizations of regulatory legitimacy that have accompanied the growth of the American state. The authors propose a dialogic model for analyzing regulatory policymaking and apply their analysis to case studies of actual environmental disputes.

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• Titolo: Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes : The Contested Languages of Social Regulation
• Editore: Yale University Press Jun 1998
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300075545
• ISBN 13: 9780300075540
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 156 A x 0 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 0 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 417 grammi

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Riassunto

At every level of government, environmental regulation is under siege. In Washington, it has been attacked first through the "New Federalism" and now through the "Contract with America." Outside the capital, environmental regulation is the subject of controversy as state and local officials struggle with new responsibilities, threats of industry exit, and challenges from grassroots groups.

This book addresses the conundrum of regulation by tracing its source to the competing characterizations of regulatory legitimacy that have accompanied the growth of the American state. Bruce Williams and Albert Matheny identify three distinct languages?managerial, pluralist, and communitarian?used to articulate competing visions of regulation. They argue that each language posits a different understanding of the public interest and therefore a different relationship between the state, the market, and the public. Because all three languages are invoked in regulatory debates, disputants talk past one another, leaving fundamental issues of legitimacy and democracy unresolved or masked by unexamined assumptions. The authors propose a dialogic model for analyzing regulatory policymaking, drawing on postmodernist theory that claims that establishing single languages for understanding the world inevitably distorts communication. They then apply their analysis to case studies of actual environmental disputes over hazardous waste regulation in the 1980s and 1990s in New Jersey, Ohio, and Florida.

Informazioni sull?autore

Bruce A. Williams is associate professor of urban and regional planning and of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Albert R. Matheny is associate professor of political science at the University of Florida.