Horizontal diffusion, vertical diffusion, and internal pressure in state environmental policymaking, 1989-1998
Horizontal diffusion, vertical diffusion, and internal pressure in state environmental policymaking, 1989-1998
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DOI：
10.1177/1532673x04273416
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发表时间：
2005-09-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Garand, JC
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作者：
Daley, DM;Garand, JC
在整个20世纪80年代，各州制定了政策，以解决日益严重的废弃和不受控制的危险废物场地问题。不足为奇的是，一些州采取了类似联邦超级基金计划的严格政策，而其他州则制定了不同的方法。在这篇文章中，我们开发并实证检验了一个国家危险废物计划强度的模型，我们将其描述为内部决定因素和外部扩散的函数。对于内部决定因素的解释，我们考虑了问题严重性、内部政治因素、利益集团压力以及社会经济和人口变量的影响。我们还包括代表区域和自上而下(国家)扩散的变量。我们的结果表明了内部决定因素和外部扩散的重要性。强大的州危险废物项目是州财富和内部危险废物问题严重程度的函数，也是外部决定因素，其中区域扩散是一个特别有影响的因素。
Throughout the 1980s, states developed policies to address the growing problem of abandoned and uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Not surprisingly, some states have adopted stringent policies that are similar to the federal Superfund program, whereas others have developed different approaches. In this article, we develop and test empirically a model of the Strength of state hazardous waste programs, which we depict as a function of both internal determinants and external diffusion. For internal determinant explanations we consider the effects of problem severity, internal political factors, interest group pressure, and socioeconomic and demographic variables. We also include variables representing regional and top-down (national) diffusion. Our results indicate the importance of both internal determinants and external diffusion. Strong state hazardous waste programs are a function of state wealth and the severity of internal hazardous waste problems, as well as external determinants, with regional diffusion as a particularly influential factor.