PAUL R. PORTNEY - University of Maryland, College Park.pdf

Chapter 8 T H E P O L I T I C A L E C O N O M Y O F E N V I R O N M E N T A L P O L I C Y WALLACE E. OATES Department of Economics, University of Maryland, CollegePark, MD, and Resourcesfar the Future, 1616P Street N. W., Washington,DC, USA PAUL R. PORTNEY Resourcesfor the Future, 1616 P Street N. IV.., Washington,DC, USA Contents Abstract 326 Keywords 326 1. On theories of regulation: Some preliminaries 328 2. On the empirical study of the political economy of environmental regulation: A few more preliminaries 331 3. Toward a positive theory of environmental regulation 332 3.1. The early literature 332 3.2. The theory of interest groups and environmental outcomes 333 3.3. The range and interaction of environmental interest groups 336 4. Empirical studies of the political economy of environmental protection 339 5. Environmental federalism 341 5.1. The assignment of environmental management to different levels of government 341 5.2. The issue of a race to the bottom 343 5.3. Environmental federalism in practice: Some evidence 344 6. Concluding observations on some recent trends