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Examines how the modern presidency has responded to environmental concerns.
The Environmental Presidency develops a systematic understanding of how presidents have influenced the development of environmental and natural resource policy through an examination of environmental behavior and interaction patterns between the president and the American people. Looking at five presidential roles-Commander in Chief, Chief Diplomat, Opinion and Party Leader, Chief Legislator, and Chief Executive-the authors show how the modern presidency has redefined the relative strengths of each role in response to the political salience of the environment.
Contributors include Chris Borick, Michael Cabral, Janet S. Conary, Byron Daynes, Andrea K. Gerlak, Mark Kelso, Ron Ketter, Carolyn Long, Brent Steel, Glen Sussman, Raymond Tatalovich, Brooks Vandivort, Mark Wattier, and Jonathan P. West.
"…a useful examination of the environmental records of U.S. presidents and often reads like an interesting combination of a textbook on the presidency and a text on environmental policy." — Environment
"The Environmental Presidency serves as an excellent introduction to presidential powers in general and executive orders in particular." — CHOICE
"…a valuable perspective on an important topic and offers a provocative agenda for future research." — FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy
"This book is NEEDED for environmental politics courses, and for presidency courses as well. There is nothing even remotely like this book available, and it tells a thorough story about the development of U.S. environmental policy and the evolution of the presidency that is both interesting and well done." — Nicholas Lovvich, Washington State University
"The Environmental Presidency addresses a neglected area in presidency studies and does so in an original, methodological way." — Larry Berman, University of California, Davis
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Chapter 1
Presidential Roles and Environmental Policy
Dennis L. Soden
Chapter 2
An Emerging Nation: The Early Presidents and the Development of Environmental Policy
Janet S. Conary
Chapter 3
The Twentieth Century: Progressivism, Prosperity, and Crisis
Andrea K. Gerlak and Patrick J. McGovern
Chapter 4
Implementation of Environmental Policy: The Chief Executive
Jonathan P. West and Glen Sussman
Chapter 5
Environmental Priorities and the President as Legislative Leader
Glen Sussman and Mark Andrew Kelso
Chapter 6
Opinion Leadership: Elections, Campaigns, Agenda Setting, and Environmentalism
Raymond Tatalovich and Mark J. Wattier
Chapter 7
The Chief Environmental Diplomat: An Evolving Arena of Foreign Policy
Carolyn Long, Michael Cabral, and Brooks Vandivort
Chapter 8
The Changing Agenda of the Environment and the Commander-in-Chief
Ronald Ketter, Chris Borick, and Michael Cabral
Chapter 9
Bill Clinton: Environmental President
Byron Daynes
Chapter 10
Evaluating the Environmental Presidency
Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel
Contributors
Index