State Expenditures and Policy Outcomes in Environmental Program Management |
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| Authors: | A. Hunter Bacot Roy A. Dawes |
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| Affiliation: | A. Hunter Bacot;is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches public policy, public administration, and research methods. His research interests include environmental policy, public management, media and public policy, and risk communication. Dr. Bacot's research has appeared most recently in Public Administration Quarterly and State and Local Government Review. Roy A. Dawes;is an assistant professor of political science at Gettysburg College. Dr. Dawes's teaching interests include comparative state politics and research methods. His current research focuses on state environmental policy and the evolution of party competition in the states and in gubernatorial elections since World War II. Dr. Dawes's research has appeared in Public Administration Quarterly and State and Local Government Review. He is currently coauthoring, with Shirley Warshaw and Stephanie Slocum-Schaffer, State and Local Politics: Power, Performance, and Public Policy. |
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| Abstract: | Comparative state environmental research seeks to explain the factors contributing to intergovernmental environmental management. In pursuing the answer to this query, researchers have relied on either fiscal (expenditures) or nonfiscal (ranking) measures of state environmental effort. Respecting the debate surrounding state policy outputs and fiscal versus nonfiscal measures, we evaluate comprehensive state environmental management comparing spending and ranking measures in our analysis. Though pronounced differences do exist between the two models, we find pollution and state size to be the primary factors affecting a state's environmental effort no matter which measure is used. |
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