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Environmental dispute resolution and hazardous waste cleanups: A cautionary tale of policy implementation
Author(s) -
Nakamura Robert T.,
Church Thomas W.,
Cooper Phillip J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.2307/3325172
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , incentive , politics , environmental policy , work (physics) , state (computer science) , transaction cost , database transaction , resolution (logic) , dispute resolution , environmental economics , business , law and economics , public economics , economics , political science , computer science , law , engineering , microeconomics , finance , waste management , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , programming language , algorithm
New York State experimented with replacing their litigation‐oriented system for achieving toxic dump site cleanup with one promising to lower transaction costs through alternative dispute resolution. Our analysis of outcomes is informed by three generations of implementation work focusing on (1) the motivations and incentives shaping individual behavior, (2) the larger organizational and political factors associated with variation across cases, and (3) the generic properties of policy implements. This mosaic approach to explanation produces, we believe, a more lifelike picture of use to policy makers for understanding the dynamic and interrelated nature of their choices.