Corporate Power and the Environment

Refreshing in its unusual criticism of main stream pluralist assumptions about environmental politics and policy. * Political Science Quarterly *
Lucid and well-written. * American Political Science Review *
Gonzalez's examples are fascinating and informative. * Political Studies Review *
Corporate Power and the Environment makes for very interesting reading due to its extensive use of congressional records, newspaper accounts, memoirs, personal correspondence, and other primary materials. * Environment *
This study does succeed in several important respects. Its presentation of both theoretical and historical material is clear, making the book suitable for use as a companion text in undergraduate public policy or environmental policy classes. It offers a wealth of information about the formation of policy regimes in a variety of environmental and natural resource policy arenas, which, taken together, mount a persuasive case that environmental policy is no "oasis of democracy", free from corporate influence. Of particular importance is its discussion of the effect of policy-planning networks on environmental policy formation. This is a subject that has received scant attention in previous literature and is justly emphasized here. * The Journal of Politics *
This thoughtful and provocative study does an excellent job explaining how economic elites have significantly influenced American environmental policymaking over time. Professor Gonzalez's book challenges traditional arguments by pluralists and offers new and exciting insights into how environmental policy is really made in the U.S. This book is must-reading for all students in public policy. -- Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern California
Recommended for students in public policy and for anyone interested in environmental issues and the policymaking process. * Perspectives on Political Science *
Gonzalez's text provides a dense and readable account of some of the early influences that shaped the US Forestry Service. A competent and concise introduction to the topic. * Environmental Politics *
An excellent and fascinating study. * Corporate Power and The Environment *
Corporate Power and the Environmentprovides an important first step in the application of critical theories of the state to environmental scholarship. As such, it is an essential addition to curriculums on environmental policy and environmental history. * Capitalism Nature Socialism *
The empirical work here is excellent, with strong case studies of forestry, national parks, and the Clean Air Act of 1990. * Organization and Environment *