Environmental Commitment among the States: Integrating Alternative Approaches to State Environmental Policy

Hays, Scott P.; Esler, Michael; Hays, Carol E.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029854

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“…State and international policy adoption literature has shown problem severity to be an important factor in environmental policy adoption, spurring action by governments to both create and implement environmental protection policies (Janicke 2005;Hays et al 1996;Hoornbeek 2004). Environmental conditions have been shown to be related to public opinions about environmental spending and the salience of environmental issues (Johnson et al 2005).…”

Section: Non-urban/rural Urban/suburbanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, it is unclear what influence problem severity may have on state-level program focus or program salience among the problem. Previous research on water pollution policy has addressed state-level policies (Crotty 1987;Hays et al 1996;Hoornbeek 2004), which are different than the case of EQIP, a federal program operated in the states by a federal agency. More investigation is needed in how environmental problems (and their severity) influence these types of conservation programs.…”

Section: Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Farmers and conservation programs: Explaining differences in Environmental Quality Incentives Program applications between states

Reimer¹,

Gramig²,

Prokopy³

2013

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Despite its economic and social benefits, agriculture is now a leading source of water pollution in the United States. While significant research effort has attempted to understand adoption of conservation practices on agricultural lands, relatively little research has explored the operation of specific agri-environmental policies in the United States. This research attempts to gain an understanding of how differing agricultural and sociopolitical contexts across the United States influence attempted participation in national agricultural conservation programs. Application rates in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) differ across the 50 states, indicating potentially important differences in state setting that influence behavior of individual farm operators. A variety of agricultural and sociopolitical measures were included in a fractional logit model to assess factors contributing to varying rates of application to EQIP. Significant explanatory variables included high sales farm prevalence, tenancy rates, and views on federal environmental spending. There also appears to be a large regional effect, with states in the Southeast, Mountain West, and Northeast having higher application rates than those in the Corn Belt. The results of this analysis indicate that certain types of farmers are more likely to seek participation in this large agricultural conservation program. Further research is needed to assess the role of government agencies (federal, state, and local) in influencing participation rates and what role individual political opinion may play in decisions related to federal cost share programs.

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Section: Non-urban/rural Urban/suburbanmentioning

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Section: Standardmentioning

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Farmers and conservation programs: Explaining differences in Environmental Quality Incentives Program applications between states

Reimer¹,

Gramig²,

Prokopy³

2013

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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“…At the broadest level scholars often sort their explanations into two categories: "internal" versus "external" determinants (F. Berry and Berry 2007). Internal determinants are specific to the state considering a new public policy, and include the state's dominant public and elite political ideologies, legislative professionalism, per capita income, degree of local problem severity, and pressure from internal interest groups (F. Berry and Berry 2007;Hays, Esler, and Hays 1996). External determinants tend to focus on models of policy diffusion between states and include economic competition among states, imitation of programs from other states, and federal pressure (F. Berry and Berry 2007).…”

Section: State Policy Choice: Material Institutional and Ideationalmentioning

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Normative Beliefs in State Policy Choice

Olive

Gunasekara²,

Raymond³

2011

Political Research Quarterly

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This article introduces a new method, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), to the study of state policy choice and the role of ideas in politics. The authors hypothesize an important role for normative beliefs in state policy choice even for policies that go beyond traditional subjects of "morality" policy. Specifically, the authors find that "precautionary norms" are influential determinants of recent state environmental policies regulating chemicals, even in the face of significant economic impacts. They conclude that these results offer new theoretical ideas relevant to the state innovation and diffusion literature as well as the study of ideas in the policy process.

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“…Most studies do not employ cross-national data sets and are not conducted with countries as the units of analysis; in fact, much of this literature is focused on state-level environmental policy in the United States (see, e.g., Lester et al 1983;Ringquist 1993). Second, measures of both environmental policy and its correlates have been narrow in scope (Hays, Esler, and Hays 1996). For instance, most studies of environmental policy in the United States focus on specific policy outcomes rather than on environmental policy in general, thereby overlooking the broad spectrum of environmental protection policies (see Calvert 1979, for example).…”

Section: Relationship Of Public Opinion and Behavior With National Enmentioning

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Does Protest Behavior Mediate the Effects of Public Opinion on National Environmental Policies? A Simple Question and a Complex Answer

Weaver

2008

International Journal of Sociology

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This article investigates the complex process by which nations are accountable to their publics by evaluating the extent to which the relationship between public opinion and national environmental policies operates through protest behavior. Using data from cross-national public opinion polls, this research examines correlations between established indicators of public opinion on the environment and three measures of environmental policy: the absence of energy subsidies, funding for environmental projects, and environmental governance. Path analysis models test whether the relationships between opinion and policy are direct or may be mediated by social movement factors, in particular environmental protest behavior. Results indicate that measures of public opinion diverge in terms of how they are related to particular indicators of policy, and suggest that public opinion has both a direct effect on policy and an indirect effect through protest behavior. The nature of the relationships between public opinion, protest behavior, and environmental policy is discussed and future directions for research in this area are proposed.

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Environmental Commitment among the States: Integrating Alternative Approaches to State Environmental Policy

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Farmers and conservation programs: Explaining differences in Environmental Quality Incentives Program applications between states

Farmers and conservation programs: Explaining differences in Environmental Quality Incentives Program applications between states

Normative Beliefs in State Policy Choice

Does Protest Behavior Mediate the Effects of Public Opinion on National Environmental Policies? A Simple Question and a Complex Answer

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