Title: Enforcement or negotiation : constructing a regulatory bureaucracy /
Authors: Shover, Neal.; Clelland, Donald A.; Lynxwiler, John.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: United States.; Strip mining Law and legislation United States.
Contents: Regulation and the state -- Surface mining and the environment -- The battle to enact legislation -- The social construction of the agency -- The social construction of regulations -- The inspection and enforcement program -- Regional variation in inspections and enforcement -- The agency under siege -- A theoretical reprise -- Coda. The office of surface mining since 1980.