Controlling Environmental Policy: The limits of public law in Germany and the United States
In Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of public law in Germany and the United States, Yale University Law Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman provides an informative description and critique of environmental policy-making in Germany, with frequent cross-references to the comparable attributes of the American system. As described by Rose-Ackerman, the German system shares many features of its American counterpart, particularly its reliance on engineering-based command-and-control regulatory strategies and a complex division of regulatory responsibility between national and state governments. Yet, these surface similarities mask important differences. According to the author, the German bureaucracy operates with less effective legislative and judicial supervision than its American counterpart, and Germany delegates more authority for both making and implementing environmental policymaking to the state governments.
- OSTI ID:
- 450794
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: From review by Collin S. Diver, University of Pennsylvania, in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spr 1996); PBD: 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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