How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. ... Business, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy) - Softcover

Elkind, Sarah S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807834890 ISBN 13: 9780807834893

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

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Book by Elkind Sarah S

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Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above.--Choice [Elkind's] clear-eyed and methodical explanation is necessary reading for scholars of the U.S. West and the environment, and for anyone who hopes to understand how well-organized business groups have shaped American political culture and the American landscape.--American Historical Review [A] researched and convincingly argued study.--American Historical Review A useful resource.--Technology and Culture An important monograph [in] the growing literature on the metropolitan development of the American West.--Western Historical Quarterly Elkind does a superb job of bringing to life the nuances of Los Angeles environmental crises and providing the reader with a context for understanding them.--Enterprise and Society An important contribution to the scholarship of American political culture during the middle decades of the twentieth century.--H-Environment"

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Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics. Los Angeles's struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has had over government. Revealing the huge disparities between big business groups and individual community members in power, influence, and the ability to participate in policy debates, Elkind shows that business groups secured their political power by providing Los Angeles authorities with much-needed services, including studying emerging problems and framing public debates. As a result, government officials came to view business interests as the public interest. When federal agencies looked to local powerbrokers for project ideas and political support, local business interests influenced federal policy, too. Los Angeles, with its many environmental problems and its dependence upon the federal government, provides a distillation of national urban trends, Elkind argues, and is thus an ideal jumping-off point for understanding environmental politics and the power of business in the middle of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0807834890
• ISBN 13: 9780807834893
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288