Fortuitous Consequence
The Domestic Politics of the 1991 Canada‐United States Agreement on Air Quality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliann Emmons Allison (0000-0003-1173-351X, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 347-359 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1999.tb01972.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029192648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
Following more than a decade of negotiations, the Canada‐United States Agreement on Air Quality entered into force on March 13, 1991, with the signatures of then‐Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US. President George Bush. Why was it so difficult for Canadian and US. negotiators to reach agreement? I argue that Canadian and U.S. domestic politics were the primary impediments to resolving the U.S.‐Canada acid rain dispute. This article thus casts the dispute in terms of a pair of domestic environmental policy problems, whose timely and complementary solution, furthermore, required executive initiative as the handmaiden of ecological crisis. Heightened public concern about the threat of acidic air pollution in Canada prompted Mulroney's efforts to reduce acid rain. In the United States, a likewise critical change in the public's perception of air quality as a national emergency created the mass support necessary for Bush's federal acid rain control initiative
Acid rain · Air pollution · Air quality index · Clean Air Act · Geography · George (robot · Meteorology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Canadian Policy and Governance · History · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration
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International Governance
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Canadian Environmental Policy
Polar politics
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Institutions for the Earth
Social Regulation in Canada
Regional Influences and Environmental Policymaking
Political leadership and regime formation
Diplomacy and domestic politics
The interest-based explanation of international environmental policy
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Taking Preferences Seriously
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |