The study of the politics of regulation has followed two distinct paths in recent years.“New
institutionalism” research has focused primarily on the policy-making process, particularly …

For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and
students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and …

Environmental policy research continues to advance toward a more Kuhnian “normal”
science where theory and empirical tools are brought to bear on real‐world policy systems …

There is growing concern that the innovation system's ability to create wealth and attain
social benefit is declining in effectiveness. This article explores the reasons for this decline …

Understanding contemporary issues of social-ecological systems in environmentally
sensitive areas is very complicated and requires careful and extensive research. The …

An investigation into the policy effects of requiring firms to disclose information about their
environmental performance. Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of …

Despite pressures to increase performance and decrease costs, innovation has been slow
to emerge in the municipal wastewater sector. The relationship between regulation and …

This paper compares three internationally representative regulatory frameworks for
pesticides. We look first at the USA, which shifted regulatory powers from the US Department …

Neoliberalism has not led to the retreat of the state but instead to the restructuring of the
state. This has led to new forms of governance where regulation represents the expanding …

As it has long been debated who is a front-runner and who is a laggard state in terms of
environmental protection it is rather surprising that the topic has received rather scant …