Taming Regulation

Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform

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ID6319786
AuthorsEvan J Ringquist (Indiana University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume2
Issue4
Pages852-853
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592704450580
OpenAlexW2118513546
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Taming Regulation: Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform. By Robert T. Nakamura and Thomas W. Church. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 141p. $46.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The central question for this book is how government agencies can “reconcile the necessary use of coercion in regulatory programs with the need to retain popular support” (p. 1). The authors answer this question by examining changes in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) “Superfund” program during the latter half of the 1990s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, reforming Superfund was a salient political issue. Scholars and stakeholders alike considered Superfund a failed program, and during this period, more than a dozen bills were debated in Congress with the aim of significantly reducing its scope or eliminating the program altogether

Agency (philosophy · Coercion (linguistics · Economics · Environmental policy · Environmental resource management · Government (linguistics · Hazardous waste · Institution · Law and economics · Political science · Scope (computer science · Social science · Sociology · Superfund · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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