PS 3480, Environmental Politics, April 13, 2009
How Does the United States Govern its Air?
2. Federal Policy Development to 1977
- Mature Command & Control: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970
- The Politics of Strict Regulation: Party Competition over clean air
- The Policy Results- Retreat: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
3. The Clean Air Act of 1990
- Getting on the Agenda
- The Politics of Policy Design
- The Politics of Adoption
- The Politics of Implementation
4. The Clean Air Agenda in the Twenty-First Century
Climate Change
What are the basics?
a. Increasing carbon concentrations in the atmosphere
b. climate changes
How has the political agenda developed?
Climate Change as a Wicked Policy Problem
a. Bush, Obama & Administration and Climate Change
b. State and local initiatives
Discussion: Should American governments be doing more to deal with Climate Change?
If Governments should be doing more, how can you get them to do more?