Speculative Augmentation in Federal Air Pollution Policy-Making

Jones, Charles O.

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“…While incrementalism is an accurate description of traditional policymaking, it is less useful in explaining decision making during crisis, revolution, political upheaval, and what Braybrooke and Lindblom (1970) [31] term "grand opportunities." In such instances Dror's (1968) [33] "extra rational processes", Steinbrunner's (1974) [32] "cognitive based inference machines", and Jones's (1974) [34] non-incremental (and one might argue "cognitively based") "speculative augmentation" are core elements of the policymaking process. In these situations, conventional policymaking procedures cannot produce required outputs.…”

Section: Policymaking During a Period Of Political Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic Adaptive Governance and Climate Change: Policymaking during Extreme Political Upheaval

Armstrong

Kamieniecki

2017

Sustainability

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Adaptive governance seeks to address complicated and difficult policy problems. Due to the extreme political upheaval wrought by the Trump administration's dismantling of federal climate change programs, many state and local governments are considering new policy approaches. Yet by ignoring crucial aspects of politics and intergovernmental relations, the adaptive governance literature provides little guidance for such substantial issues. This paper introduces the concept of strategic adaptive governance, a framework for permitting policymakers to achieve the highest rate of compliance possible under existing conditions and constraints involving state and local policy, despite political upheaval. The strategic adaptive governance model embraces politics, accounts for the role of central authorities, and emphasizes the motivations, resources, and interdependencies of affected parties. We apply the model in an analysis of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), examining the extent to which it aligns with strategic adaptive governance, and evaluating the potential for the state to utilize the model. We find that AB 32 aligns moderately with strategic adaptive governance, and discuss how the model could help protect and enhance policy gains. More broadly, strategic adaptive governance provides a generic and universal framework for policymakers interested in tactical formulation of any regulatory policy.

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Section: Policymaking During a Period Of Political Upheavalmentioning

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Strategic Adaptive Governance and Climate Change: Policymaking during Extreme Political Upheaval

Armstrong

Kamieniecki

2017

Sustainability

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“…The 1970 Clean Air Act was a legislative achievement with lofty goals.^ Charles O. Jones named the Act as an example of "speculative augmentation," a policy designed with the strategy of forcing industry to make the best possible effort to cut pollution, as opposed to setting standards that industry might accept as more reasonable and achievable but would result in significantly less pollution control (Jones, 1974). Additional goals were specified both times the act was amended, and an impatient Congress added hammer clauses that imposed new legislative mandates that would take effect in case the EPA failed to write new regulations by its deadlines.…”

Section: Regulation Oe Hazardous Air Pollutantsmentioning

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Participation in E-Rulemaking: Interest Groups and the Standard-Setting Process for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Shafie

2008

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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The advent of e-rulemaking raised concerns that regulatory agencies could become deluged if interest groups mobilized supporters to submit a high volume of comments electronically. This study examines the sources of comments on 56 proposed rules by the U,S, Environmental Protection Agency over the decade that the agency began to solicit comments through electronic dockets. The analysis finds that comments submitted by regulated industries greatly outnumber those from other individuals and groups before and after e-commenting became common, E-rulemaking was associated with an increase in the volume of public comments overall, and the proportion of private citizen comments increased. With few exceptions, industry continued to provide the majority of comments. Mass comment campaigns by interest groups were evident in only three of the cases,

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“…We do so in the following examination of the similarities between the two movements. Since the stories of these movements are well known in the literature (Jones 1974(Jones , 1975Waller 1987;McCormick 1985;Hayes 1987), they bear only brief retelling here.…”

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“…Until the birth of the clean air movement, industrial polluters enjoyed a cozy policy subsystem in which they--and virtually they alone--were interested in what regulations they lived under. As one source quoted by Jones (1975Jones ( : 162) noted, "in 1965Jones ( and 1966 the hearing rooms were filled with industry people. "…”

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Mobilized Masses and Strategic Opponents: A Resource Mobilization Analysis of the Clean Air and Nuclear Freeze Movements

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Ritchie²

1991

The Western Political Quarterly

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Speculative Augmentation in Federal Air Pollution Policy-Making

Cited by 43 publications

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Strategic Adaptive Governance and Climate Change: Policymaking during Extreme Political Upheaval

Strategic Adaptive Governance and Climate Change: Policymaking during Extreme Political Upheaval

Participation in E-Rulemaking: Interest Groups and the Standard-Setting Process for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Mobilized Masses and Strategic Opponents: A Resource Mobilization Analysis of the Clean Air and Nuclear Freeze Movements

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