Active Dismantling Under High Institutional Constraints? Explaining the Bush Administration's Attempts to Weaken US Air Pollution Control Policy

Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Korte, Stefanie ^a   Jörgens, Helge ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active dismantling; Air policy; Environmental policy; Policy dismantling; US politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921709672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656646.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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