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The Grassroots are Greener: Democratic Participation and Environmental Policies in State Politics.
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Conference Papers -- Western Political Science Association . 2008 Annual Meeting, p1-38. 38p. 9 Charts, 6 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- American environmental legislation cannot be fully explained under traditional interest-group theory, which emphasizes the success of well-financed, organized interests. One alternate explanation holds that the American public accepts a new environmental ethos that is protective of the natural world and human health. In analyzing over five hundred environmental ballot questions, this paper establishes the emergence and persistence of a new environmental ethos as well as a dynamic voting pattern in favor of such environmental protections. As manifest in state-level environmental ballot questions, this ethos emerges in the early 1960s and grows in the subsequent forty years. Such environmental questions appear in higher numbers throughout time, address a wide-range of environmental problems, appear in a variety of states and regions, receive substantial funding, and with few exception are not the simple result of larger economic or political forces. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Conference Papers -- Western Political Science Association
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 42980864