Green leviathan the case for a federal role in environmental policy
The US, Switzerland and Canada are wealthy democracies that should be conducive to effective decentralized or cooperative environmental policy-making. However, a closer examination of their environmental policy over many decades finds no evidence that these approaches have worked. So does it matter...
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London
Routledge
2016
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| Series: | Federalism studies
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Table of Contents:
- Examining the case for decentralized policymaking
- Interjurisdictional regulatory competition and fears about competitiveness
- The alternatives to decentralization : contracts versus institutions
- United States : greening through centralization
- Switzerland : the power of referenda in a noncentralized system
- Canada : when centralization does not occur
- The European Union : setting stringent standards despite the obstacles.