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"This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, with the lofty aim of ending the marginalization of communities in public policy implementation. Contributors adopt a liberatory framework to examine street-level public administrators (e.g. teachers, security officers, policy analysts, human resource experts) most responsible for implementing public policy in the United States, including and amplifying previously unrecognized narratives on the front-lines of public administration. Case studies explore real-life public servants not traditionally heard from, offering counter narratives. Each chapter concludes with an empowerment exercise or assignment for faculty to adopt in their classroom. This edited volume, a first of its kind, is written by experts in public policy and administration, bringing together top and emerging scholars in one volume to amplify underrepresented voices in public administration and policy. Chapters are rooted in qualitative approaches and center the narratives of marginalized communities, including women, People of Color, and LGBTQIA+ public servants. Street-Level Public Servants offers a much-needed casebook for public administration and public policy courses in the twenty-first century"--

Setting the stage: environmental rulemaking & regulation defined / by Sara R. Rinfret -- Creating an environmental rule: is it really off the record? / by Sara R. Rinfret and Jeffrey J. Cook -- Notice and comment: what does the public think? / by Jeffrey J. Cook -- Is the rule final yet? Executive orders, litigation, and rule finalization / by Deserai Crow, Lydia Lawhon, and Sara K. Guenther -- What happens next? Insights from environmental inspectors / by Michelle C. Pautz -- Lessons from the states: oil and gas regulation in Colorado / by Robert J. Duffy -- Interacting authorities: how southeastern states and the EPA regulate coal ash disposal / by Charles Davis -- Our environmental policy tomorrow / by Sara R. Rinfret.

AbstractAs state capitals and city halls influence our daily lives, how can students become active participants in the affairs of their communities (Saffell and Basehart 2009)? For students to explore this question and local policy making in general, I developed a city council simulation for a state and local government course. This article describes the details of this city council simulation so that it can be easily replicated. Moreover, the goal is for students to move beyond classroom lectures and become more informed participants of local policy making.

AbstractThe purpose of this article was to question whether interest group actions during the pre‐proposal stage of U.S. federal rulemaking influences the language proposed in natural resource agency rules. The influence of interest groups during this stage was examined across three case studies: (1) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) critical habitat designation for Nebraska's Salt Creek tiger beetle, (2) the USFWS critical habitat designation for the Utah/Arizona Shivwits and Holmgren milk vetch, and (3) the USFWS delisting of the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population from the endangered species list. To analyze these three cases, a frame analysis approach is used and offers evidence to support the proposition that the instructive, expertise, and fiscal feasibility frames that stakeholders used during the pre‐proposal stage can shape the language of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. These cases suggest the rich potential for careful study of the earliest stages in the regulatory and administrative rulemaking process in the United States and beyond.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Environmental Policy in Practice -- Environmental Dilemmas and Choices -- Clean or Dirty Air? -- Is It Really Drinkable? -- Taking Out the Trash -- Why Should We Care About Plants and Animals? -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter Wrap-Up -- Challenge Question for the Environmental Policy Classroom -- Suggested Resources -- Readings and Websites -- Films or Videos -- References -- 2 The Development and Context of American Environmental Policy -- Historical Evolution of US Environmental Policy -- Colonial America -- Nineteenth Century -- Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1930s -- Mid-twentieth Century: 1940s and 1950s -- The Birth of the Modern Environmental Movement -- The 1970s: The Development of Modern Environmental Regulation -- The 1980s: Changing Course with Environmental Protection -- The 1990s: Stagnation -- The Early Twenty-First Century: Presidents Bush and Obama -- The Trump Administration: The Undoing of Environmental Policy -- The Start of the Third Decade of the Twenty-First Century: The Biden Administration -- Themes in the US' Experience with Environmental Policy -- Public Opinion and the Environment -- Role of Science in Public Discourse -- Chapter Wrap-Up -- Challenge Question for the Environmental Policy Classroom -- Suggested Resources -- Readings and Websites -- Films or Video -- References -- 3 The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy -- What Is Environmental Policy? -- The Context of Policymaking -- The Policy Process -- Stages Model of Policymaking -- Problem Identification and Definition -- Agenda Setting -- Policy Formulation -- Policy Legitimation -- Policy Implementation -- Policy Evaluation -- Policy Failure and Change -- Flaws of the Stages Model and Alternative Policy Models -- Attributes of the Policymaking System.

US Environmental Policy: A Practical Approach to Understanding Implementation provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in an era of congressional gridlock. With a focus grounded in the front-lines of environmental policy, readers are afforded examples of how environmental policy works through case studies and voices sections, thereby enriching the text's practical approach to understanding contemporary American environmental policy.

"When we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although such a focus is understandable, it neglects the actors most responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the nation's environmental laws - the states. Recognition of the importance of the states still ignores an even smaller subsection of actors, inspectors. These front-line actors in state environmental agencies are the individuals responsible for writing environmental rules and ensuring compliance with those rules. They play an important role in the environmental regulatory state.With data collected from more than 1,300 inspectors across 20 states, Michelle C. Pautz and Sara R. Rinfret take a closer look at these neglected actors to better understand how environmental regulators perceive the regulated community and how they characterize their interactions with them. In doing so, they explore the role these front-line actors play, what it is like to be them, what they think of their place in the environmental regulatory system, and how they interact with the regulated community.An original, timely and unmatched volume advancing the debate on the future of environmental regulation in the U.S"--

When we think about environmental policy and regulation in the U.S., our attention invariably falls on the federal level and, more specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Although such a focus is understandable, it neglects the actors most responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the nation's environmental laws - the states. Recognition of the importance of the states still ignores an even smaller subsection of actors, inspectors. These front-line actors in state environmental agencies are the individuals responsible for writing environmental rules and ensuri.

AbstractThe promulgation of the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule stands as the first step to developing a comprehensive national approach to climate change. However, what role, if any, did interest groups play in the development of this rule? This paper applies Kingdon's multiple streams model as a descriptive framework to analyze interview data for this rule to better understand interest group involvement across all the stages of the rule‐making process (rule development, notice and comment phase, and rule finalization). Our research suggests that interest groups were indeed influential throughout the process, but those involved during rule development were clearly at an advantage.

This research is an effort to focus on frontline regulators with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. An online survey was conducted of frontline regulators in these agencies to explore their knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives on policy implementation. More specifically, we endeavor to answer how frontline workers implement environmental policy. To analyze these data, we use two categorizations of factors (knowledge and attitudes, and contextual factors) offered by May and Winter (2009) to examine what influences the decision making of frontline regulators in their regulatory interactions. We find that despite common presumptions of adversarialism in the environmental regulatory arena, the frontline environmental inspectors in these states generally have positive attitudes of their regulatory colleagues and cope well with external contextual factors. While our findings are exploratory and descriptive, we argue that they are important for the next generation of environmental policy in the USA. . [Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.]

This research is an effort to focus on frontline regulators with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. An online survey was conducted of frontline regulators in these agencies to explore their knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives on policy implementation. More specifically, we endeavor to answer how frontline workers implement environmental policy. To analyze these data, we use two categorizations of factors (knowledge and attitudes, and contextual factors) offered by May and Winter (2009) to examine what influences the decision making of frontline regulators in their regulatory interactions. We find that despite common presumptions of adversarialism in the environmental regulatory arena, the frontline environmental inspectors in these states generally have positive attitudes of their regulatory colleagues and cope well with external contextual factors. While our findings are exploratory and descriptive, we argue that they are important for the next generation of environmental policy in the USA. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.