Provost, C;
Gerber, BJ;
(2018)
Political control and policy-making uncertainty in executive orders: the implementation of environmental justice policy.
Journal of Public Policy
, 39
(2)
pp. 329-358.
10.1017/S0143814X18000077.
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Abstract
Environmental justice (EJ) has represented an important equity challenge in policymaking for decades. President Clinton’s executive order (EO) 12898 in 1994 represented a significant federal action, requiring agencies to account for EJ issues in new rulemakings. We examine the impact of EO 12898 within the larger question of how EO are implemented in complex policymaking. We argue that presidential preferences will affect bureaucratic responsiveness and fire alarm oversight. However, EJ policy complexity produces uncertainty leading to bureaucratic risk aversion, constraining presidential efforts to steer policy. We utilise an original data set of nearly 2,000 final federal agency rules citing EO 12898 and find significant variation in its utilisation across administrations. Uncertainty over the nature of the order has an important influence on bureaucratic responsiveness. Our findings are instructive for the twin influences of political control and policy-making uncertainty and raise useful questions for future EJ and policy implementation research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Political control and policy-making uncertainty in executive orders: the implementation of environmental justice policy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0143814X18000077 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X18000077 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | environmental justice, environmental policy, executive order, public administration, regulation, rulemaking |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050959 |
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