Author: Shover, Neal; Clelland, Donald A.; & Lynxwiler, John
Title: Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1986). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xi, 193 pp. Binding corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Regulation & the State: The Rise of Regulation; Regulation & Theories of the State: Neo-Marxist Theories; The Regulatory Process: Choices & Constraints; Styles of Regulation: A Typological Analysis of the Regulatory Process; Stages of the Regulatory Process...Surface Mining & the Environment: Trends in American Coal Production; The Surface Coal Mining Process; The Destructive Effects of Early Surface Coal Mining; The Anti-Strip Mining Movement; The Battle to Enact Legislation: 90th Congress (1968): Hearings; Interim Events; 92nd & 93rd Congresses: Hearings & Legislation; 93rd & 94th Congresses: Legislation & Vetoes: 95th Congress: The Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act of 1977; The Social Construction of the Agency: Constructing Legislative History; Constructing the Organization; Constraining Factors...;The Social Construction of Regulations...The OSM's Rule-Making Process; Federal Surface Mining Regulations...The Inspection & Enforcement Program: The Guiding Ideology; Creating an Enforcement Process; Industry & State Opposition; Evaluation of Enforcement; Sanctioning Corporate Offenders...; Regional Variation in Inspection & Enforcement: Regulatory Enforcement Styles; Contrasts in Regional Enforcement Activity; The Agency under Siege: The Revolt of the States; The Coal Industry's Counterattack; The States-Industry Coalition; "Friendly" Sniping by Environmentalists... A Theoretical Reprise...The Office of Surface Mining Since 1980...Appendix: Methodology.

Keywords: Environmental Regulation, Regulatory Industry, Federal Government, Bureaucracy, Environment Process, Office of Surface, Mining Reclamation, Strip Coal Mines, Legislative History