1st Edition
Green Leviathan The Case for a Federal Role in Environmental Policy
By Inger Weibust
Copyright 2009
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 which level of government makes policy? Can cooperation between sub-national governments protect the... Read more
Green Leviathan
Biography
Inger Weibust is Assistant Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.
'This is an excellent book on a very important subject: at what jurisdictional level in decentralized governmental systems should the responsibility for meaningful environmental regulation be housed? To answer this question, Inger Weibust critically reviews a vast economic and political science literature to formulate empirical propositions which are then "tested" using information derived from a study of four governmental systems: those of the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and the European Union. A genuine contribution!' Albert Breton, University of Toronto, Canada
