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

by Sarah S. Elkind

Book Overview

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 federal politics.

Los Angeles's struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has had over government. Revealing the huge disparities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618974
• ISBN13: 9781469618975
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"