How local politics shape federal policy
Subtitle: business, power, and the environment in twentieth-century Los Angeles
By: Sarah S. Elkind
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state; Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780807834893
Subjects: Economic policy; Politics and government; Environmental policy
Description: "Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: business interests, special interests, and the public interest; title: Oil and water : the public and the private on southern California beaches, 1920-1950; title: Influence through cooperation : the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and air pollution control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954; title: Flood control and political exclusion at Whittier Narrows, 1938-1948; title: Private power at Hoover dam : utilities, government power, and political realism, 1920-1928; title: The triumph of localism : the rejection of national water planning in 1950; title: Conclusion : small government and big business in the mid-twentieth century.