A Window of Autonomy: State Autonomy &amp; the Forest Service in the Early 1990s

Klyza, Christopher McGrory

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“…Pluralists who evaluate environmental policy have expressed a tendency to focus on government institutions themselves more often than their counterparts in other policy areas, who tend to focus on interest groups. This tendency has fostered a willingness to contemplate the interests and behaviors of the state, pushing this tradition into new theoretical directions while still maintaining the pluralist ideal (e.g., Klyza, 1992;R. Miller, 1987).…”

Section: Pluralismmentioning

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Understanding Environmental Governance

Davidson

Frickel

2004

Organization & Environment

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This article presents an historical sketch of the insights and applications provided by social science scholars on environmental governance. The authors begin with a review of the conceptual developments during the past 50 years characterized in terms of six conceptual perspectives: pluralism, agency capture, ecological Marxism, ecological modernization, social constructionism, and global environmentalism. This section is followed by an empirical analysis of academic journal coverage of research on environmental governance from 1963 to 2001 listed in the database Sociological Abstracts. The authors conclude that an understanding of the potential for environmental improvement could be advanced by the treatment of works that fall within the conceptual typology described herein, as a cumulative body of interdisciplinary knowledge. Advancements in this area could, furthermore, be facilitated through a broadening of empirical and methodological treatment of environmental governance and a greater attention to macro-structural relations among state and societal forces and environmental phenomena.

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Section: Pluralismmentioning

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Understanding Environmental Governance

Davidson

Frickel

2004

Organization & Environment

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“…The characteristics that contributed to this autonomy included: strong leadership by Pinchot; Pinchot's relationship with President Roosevelt; agency control of much of its budget; the small, tightly-knit profession of forestry; the placement of the entire Forest Service staff under Civil Service requirements; a massive public relations program; and administrative discretion due to the 1897 Organic Act. This autonomy was given direction by the idea of technocratic utilitarianism (Klyza, 1992).…”

Section: Public Lands Forestrymentioning

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Privileged Ideas and State Interests

Klyza¹,

Mlyn

1995

Policy Studies Journal

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The puzzle that intrigues us is the source of interests that guide the state in instances of state autonomy. We argue that one important source of these interests is ideas: When relative state autonomy exists over long periods of time, there is a strong likelihood of a privileged idea that informs state interests. State actors direct state policy during autonomous periods by adopting and privileging particular ideas (institutionalization), resulting in policy outcomes reflecting these now privileged ideas. This argument is examined in two case studies: nuclear weapons targeting since World War II, guided by counterforce, and federal public lands forestry policy since 1900, guided by technocratic utilitarianism.

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Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Patterns: Hardrock Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policy on United States Public Lands, 1870–1985

Klyza

1994

Stud. Am. Pol. Dev.

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From the mid–1800s through the mid–1980s, the federal government initiated programs to manage three types of resources on the lands that it controlled. The discovery of gold in California and elsewhere in the West prompted the first government policy in the 1860s. Debate over the nation's forests began in the 1870s, and a system of national forests to be managed by a federal Forest Service was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s. And in the 1930s, the government finally began to manage the lands no one wanted, its grazing lands. The federal government continues to be an active manager of national resources. Indeed, with control of nearly 30 percent of the nation's land, it is the largest land manager in the country.

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A Window of Autonomy: State Autonomy & the Forest Service in the Early 1990s

Cited by 5 publications

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Understanding Environmental Governance

Understanding Environmental Governance

Privileged Ideas and State Interests

Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Patterns: Hardrock Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policy on United States Public Lands, 1870–1985

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