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Partnerships in the Development and Implementation of Canadian Air Quality Regulation
Author(s) -
BAAR ELLEN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1992.tb00074.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , general partnership , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , process (computing) , public administration , quality (philosophy) , political science , air quality index , business , policy development , environmental economics , economics , sociology , law , computer science , geography , social science , philosophy , epistemology , meteorology , operating system
This case study focuses on how the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment combined consultative processes with federal provincial negotiations to develop a policy for reducing emissions of nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds. The paper argues that the relationship among the parties was not characterized by the reciprocity required for a partnership, and that the process employed was insensitive to inequalities in regulatory capacity. As a result, too little attention was devoted to the question of how regulatory capacities can be continuously improved.