How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy : Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles /

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Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Elkind, Sarah S., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government
Environmental policy.
Economic policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Californie.
Environmental policy > California.
California.
Californie > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Californie > Politique economique > 20e siecle.
California > Politics and government > 20th century.
California > Economic policy > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: business interests, special interests, and the public interest
  • Oil and water : the public and the private on southern California beaches, 1920-1950
  • Influence through cooperation : the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and air pollution control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954
  • Flood control and political exclusion at Whittier Narrows, 1938-1948
  • Private power at Hoover dam : utilities, government power, and political realism, 1920-1928
  • The triumph of localism : the rejection of national water planning in 1950
  • Conclusion : small government and big business in the mid-twentieth century.

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