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Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?

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Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. xv + 327 pages. ISBN: 0-8047-4815-2, $69.95 cloth; ISBN: 0-8047-4832-2, $25.95 paper. Sheldon Kamieniecki. 2006.

Sheldon Kamieniecki provides a fresh look at an enduring question in American politics and in American environmental policy: how often does business get its way? Such analysis frequently clusters into rival camps that are often eager to score points rather than engage in careful analysis. On the one hand, many scholars have found consistent dominance by business, across environmental policy arenas and over time. In contrast, others have argued that the American system remains more pluralistic, particularly since the advent of environmental advocacy groups and other interests that offset business influence. Of course, all of this plays out amid intensified efforts by corporations and schools of...

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