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Association: Name: WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Robert, Patricia., Abel, Troy. and Salazar, Debra. "Identifying Influences on States Abilities to Enact Environmental Justice Policies in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, California, Mar 20, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237886_index.html>

Robert, P. A., Abel, T. and Salazar, D. , 2008-03-20 "Identifying Influences on States Abilities to Enact Environmental Justice Policies in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, California Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237886_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Situations of environmental injustice constrain citizens' individual liberty and reinforce inequality while giving rise to political conflict. Because the federal government has done little in the area of environmental justice, states are at the forefront this policy arena. But states vary in the extent to which they have addressed this issue. This paper describes executive and legislative state efforts over the last two decades to promote environmental justice. Though most states have taken some action to address environmental injustice, fourteen states have done nothing to date. After analyzing state policies, this study develops a Guttman scale of actions states have taken to address environmental injustice. To explain variation along this scale, institutional, political, economic, and problem severity independent variables are included in a regression analysis. The same variables are used to determine if environmental justice policy is affected by the same variables as environmental policy, more generally. The findings are mixed, suggesting that environmental justice policy may be a hybrid policy of protective regulatory policy and redistributive policy.

Local Media, Public Opinion, and State Government Policy: Second-Level Agenda Setting and Political Bias

Modeling Policy Adoption and Implementation in State Government: The Political Economy of Teacher Competency Testing