A political economy model of implementing pollution laws |
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Authors: | Paul B Downing |
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Institution: | Department of Economics and Policy Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA |
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Abstract: | A model of the implementation process as applied in pollution control is developed. It differs from previous bureaucracy models in that it subjects the control agency to pressures from both firms and procontrol citizen groups. Each of these three actors maximizes utility over environmental quality and some other variable. Environmental quality may be in the actor's preference function or it may represent derived demand. Working through the agency budget and other policy variables, each actor constrains another actor's attempts to move policy in preferred directions. This results in movement toward a concensus environmental quality, not necessarily the efficient quality. Several institutional changes are analyzed to demonstrate the workings of the model. |
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