James P Lester
Biographic Data
| ID | 998639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James P Lester |
| GIVEN NAMES | James P |
| FAMILY NAME | Lester |
| SIGNATURE | LESTER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Environmental Injustice in the United States
Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on minority communities. The first part of the book examines closely the history of the environmental justice movement and the scholarly literature to date, with a discussion about how the issue made the public agenda in the first place. The second part of t…
The Policy Termination Process
The purposes of this article are twofold. First, from a review of the extant literature on termination of policies, programs, and organizations, we identify the "crucial variables" that are believed to affect termination. In doing so, we develop a descriptive model of program termination. Then, we utilize this model as a hueristic device to examine the termination of federal revenue-sharing programs in 1986. After reviewing the available literatu…
Comparative State Environmental Politics and Policy
The Utilization of Policy Analysis by State Agency Officials
Findings from a 1988 survey of U.S. state officials working in the areas of hazardous wastes, economic development, welfare, and education suggest that these officials do not appear to rely heavily on policy analysis from research organizations or from university faculty; instead, they rely principally on policy advice from their peers in other state agencies, newspapers, their counterparts in federal agencies, and staff from the governors' offic…
Evaluating the Evaluators
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China, Acid Rain, and Hazardous Waste
The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation. John M. Mendeloff
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
Superfund implementation
Public Policy Implementation
Decentralizing Federal Environmental Policy
The Formation of Ocean Incineration Policy
New Federalism and Environmental Policy
This article examines the degree of correspondence between the conceptual underpinnings of President Reagan's New Federalism and the willingness and capacity of states to assume a larger share of environmental responsibilities. The findings indicate that many of the states have not replaced federal aid reductions with own-source revenues. Replacements that did occur were limited to a single year and primarily in the area of hazardous waste manage…
Alternative Levels of Analysis in Hazardous Waste Regulatory Policy
The articles in this collection serve to illustrate that problems of hazardous waste disposal are amenable to analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Understanding the interplay between high‐risk policy problems, changing political and economic circumstances, and actions taken by political actors with a stake in decisional outcomes should yield information of substantial value to public administrators as well as students of the publi…
Technological Cooperation and the Nation-State
N K 1 O PROBLEM in the study of international politics has been more persistent or perplexing than the problem of international conflict, or its converse, international cooperation. Many studies in this century have suggested that the nation-state lies at the root of international conflict and that its weakening, circumvention, or transcendence is necessary to strengthen international cooperation. Early proponents of international organization, w…
Hazardous Waste Policies
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
The Policy Termination Process
The purposes of this article are twofold. First, from a review of the extant literature on termination of policies, programs, and organizations, we identify the "crucial variables" that are believed to affect termination. In doing so, we develop a descriptive model of program termination. Then, we utilize this model as a hueristic device to examine the termination of federal revenue-sharing programs in 1986. After reviewing the available literatu…
Public Policy Implementation
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
The Utilization of Policy Analysis by State Agency Officials
Findings from a 1988 survey of U.S. state officials working in the areas of hazardous wastes, economic development, welfare, and education suggest that these officials do not appear to rely heavily on policy analysis from research organizations or from university faculty; instead, they rely principally on policy advice from their peers in other state agencies, newspapers, their counterparts in federal agencies, and staff from the governors' offic…
Decentralizing Federal Environmental Policy
New Federalism and Environmental Policy
This article examines the degree of correspondence between the conceptual underpinnings of President Reagan's New Federalism and the willingness and capacity of states to assume a larger share of environmental responsibilities. The findings indicate that many of the states have not replaced federal aid reductions with own-source revenues. Replacements that did occur were limited to a single year and primarily in the area of hazardous waste manage…
Evaluating the Evaluators
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Comparative State Environmental Politics and Policy
Alternative Levels of Analysis in Hazardous Waste Regulatory Policy
The articles in this collection serve to illustrate that problems of hazardous waste disposal are amenable to analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Understanding the interplay between high‐risk policy problems, changing political and economic circumstances, and actions taken by political actors with a stake in decisional outcomes should yield information of substantial value to public administrators as well as students of the publi…
Technological Cooperation and the Nation-State
N K 1 O PROBLEM in the study of international politics has been more persistent or perplexing than the problem of international conflict, or its converse, international cooperation. Many studies in this century have suggested that the nation-state lies at the root of international conflict and that its weakening, circumvention, or transcendence is necessary to strengthen international cooperation. Early proponents of international organization, w…
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
Hazardous Waste Policies
Alternative Levels of Analysis in Hazardous Waste Regulatory Policy
The articles in this collection serve to illustrate that problems of hazardous waste disposal are amenable to analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Understanding the interplay between high‐risk policy problems, changing political and economic circumstances, and actions taken by political actors with a stake in decisional outcomes should yield information of substantial value to public administrators as well as students of the publi…
Technological Cooperation and the Nation-State
N K 1 O PROBLEM in the study of international politics has been more persistent or perplexing than the problem of international conflict, or its converse, international cooperation. Many studies in this century have suggested that the nation-state lies at the root of international conflict and that its weakening, circumvention, or transcendence is necessary to strengthen international cooperation. Early proponents of international organization, w…
The Formation of Ocean Incineration Policy
New Federalism and Environmental Policy
This article examines the degree of correspondence between the conceptual underpinnings of President Reagan's New Federalism and the willingness and capacity of states to assume a larger share of environmental responsibilities. The findings indicate that many of the states have not replaced federal aid reductions with own-source revenues. Replacements that did occur were limited to a single year and primarily in the area of hazardous waste manage…
Public Policy Implementation
Decentralizing Federal Environmental Policy
Superfund implementation
The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation. John M. Mendeloff
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
Evaluating the Evaluators
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
China, Acid Rain, and Hazardous Waste
The Utilization of Policy Analysis by State Agency Officials
Findings from a 1988 survey of U.S. state officials working in the areas of hazardous wastes, economic development, welfare, and education suggest that these officials do not appear to rely heavily on policy analysis from research organizations or from university faculty; instead, they rely principally on policy advice from their peers in other state agencies, newspapers, their counterparts in federal agencies, and staff from the governors' offic…
Comparative State Environmental Politics and Policy
The Policy Termination Process
The purposes of this article are twofold. First, from a review of the extant literature on termination of policies, programs, and organizations, we identify the "crucial variables" that are believed to affect termination. In doing so, we develop a descriptive model of program termination. Then, we utilize this model as a hueristic device to examine the termination of federal revenue-sharing programs in 1986. After reviewing the available literatu…
Environmental Injustice in the United States
Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on minority communities. The first part of the book examines closely the history of the environmental justice movement and the scholarly literature to date, with a discussion about how the issue made the public agenda in the first place. The second part of t…
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