California Greenin’
How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10366790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leah C Stokes (University of California, Santa Barbara), Leah Stokes (0000-0002-9919-8664, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 574-576 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1002/polq.12951 |
| OpenAlex | W2973052611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
After a long career, David Vogel has brought us another important work that gets to the heart of environmental policy and politics. In California Greenin’ he builds on his well-known concept of the “California effect” by trying to answer a thorny preceding question: why did California become an environmental leader in the first place? In just over 300 pages, he outlines his answer: environmental threats plus fragility and beauty leads to environmental leadership, particularly with citizen action, business support, and a strong regulatory state. California Greenin’ traces the history of citizen mobilization on environmental issues, from the formation of the Sierra Club onward, showing how direct contact with California’s unique geography galvanized activists. As in his earlier books, Vogel also argues that businesses are important players. He shows that environmental problems often split the business community into opponents and supporters of environmental policy. Finally, he highlights that California’s strong regulatory capacity was key to making progress on several problems
Economic history · Environmental ethics · Political science · State (computer science · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Public Administration
Climate and transportation policy sequencing in California and Quebec
Climate change and right-wing populism in the United States
Climate Governance and Federalism
The Effects of Mandatory and Voluntary Regulatory Pressures on Firms’ Environmental Strategies
The Race to Exclude
The benefits of specialized knowledge in polycentric governance
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Silicon Valley Goes Green
Functional differentiation in governance networks for sea level rise adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area
Conservation, finance, bureaucrats
The Environmental State
The Politics of preemption
Does business influence government regulations? New evidence from Canadian impact assessments
Risk regulation and precaution in Europe and the United States
Continuous discontinuation
The cleanest oil fields in the world”
Rooted in place
How the process of transitions shapes the politics of decarbonization
The political origins of corporate transparency
Creating adaptive social-ecological fit
Business Support for Nature Protection in the Nineteenth Century
Minor Party Major Change
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |