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Environmental Policy and Politics in Multilevel Systems: USA (Seminar)

Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 06.10.2008 - 23.01.2009 | C 14.103 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In most industrialized democracies, environmental policy developed as a functionally and institutionally differentiated field of policy activity with its own specific institutional arrangements, actor constellations and patterns of problem solving. Historically, the United States of America have been a forerunner in the institutionalization and differentiation of environmental policy. Yet today, the USA is in many ways perceived as a laggard in environmental policy. This picture is changing, however, if we do not only focus on the national government, but start looking at new policies at the state and local level. The development of the environment as a sometimes heavily contested policy field in the USA is closely related to specific features of the American political system, especially its federal structure. How is environmental policy shaped by the political system in which it develops, and with what impact? What factors determine the environmental problem solving capacity and the performance of this multilevel political system? How does it compare to other federal systems? Did environmental policy in the USA change over the last decades and if so, why? This course focuses on the rise and change of environmental policy and politics and its interrelations with political institutions and political processes in the political system of the United States of America.