Managing Leviathan
Environmental Politics and the Administrative State
Published on 15. August 1990
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-0-471-94599-4 (ISBN)
Description
Environmental problems have shocked the twentieth century, shaking the confidence in order and progress that had underpinned the exuberant growth of the industrial and administrative leviathan. Is bureaucracy - the organizational form that helped to create these problems - really suited to solving them?. The book covers specific problems such as acid rain and toxic waste as well as the broad issues of in what ways and to what extent governments can or should be responsible for the environment. In particular, the authors examine the potential of participation and decentralization as counters to the administrative bias that has often assumed democracy to be at odds with effective environmental management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94599-4 (9780471945994)
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Content
Part 1 The environment as an administrative problem: environmental administration, Douglas Torgerson and Robert Paehlke; obsolescent leviathan, Douglas Torgerson; democracy and environmentalism, Robert Paehlke. Part 2 Techniques and process of environmental administration: decision techniques foe environmental policy, Douglas J. Army; ecological reason in administration, Robert V. Bartlett; designs for environmental discourse, John S. Drysek. Part 3 Administration as an environmental problem: limits of the administrative mind, Douglas Torgerson. Part 4 The politics of environmental administration: resisting environmental regulation; between rocks and hard places, Kernaghan Webb; the crisis of administrative legitimacy, A.R. Malberg and B.A. Williams; out of control and beyond understanding, R.B. Gibson; toxic waste and the administrative state, Robert Paehlke and Douglas Torgerson; environmental politics and the administrative state, Robert Paehlke and Douglas Torgerson.