Corporate America and environmental policy
Subtitle: how often does business get its way?
By: Sheldon Kamieniecki.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Corporate power -- United States; Environmental policy -- United States; Industrial management -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Business and politics -- United States; Corporations -- Political aspects -- United States; Big business -- United States
Description: Offers a general conceptual framework for analyzing the influence of corporate America over environmental policymaking and explores how much firms have influenced Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and certain natural resource agencies, and the courts on environmental and natural issues since the beginning of the environmental movement in 1970. -- from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Business and American democracy; title: Interest groups and environmental policymaking; title: Theories of issue definition, framing, and agenda building; title: Agenda building in Congress; title: The influence of business in federal agencies and  courts; title: Corporate involvement in regulatory policy; title: Corporate involvement in natural resource policy; title: Conclusion.