Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Explaining Motivations
in Two Green Bureaucracies
Motivation and the Achievement of Organizational Goals
The EPA and the EA: Structures and Cultures
Organizational Design
Institutional Approaches
Cultural Explanations
Two Green Bureaucracies
The Structure of the Book
1 The EPA – The Historical and Political
Context
The Creation of the EPA
The EPA: Goals and Motivations
2 The Institutional Structure of the
EPA
Institutional Analyses
Institutional Divisions Within the EPA
3 The Cultural Schism Within the EPA
Culture
Mission
4 The Reinvention of the EPA
Motivations in Washington Headquarters: The Institutional
Effects of Reinvention
The Cultural Effects of Reinvention
Motivations in Region III: an Overview
5 Creating the Environment Agency
The Development of Environmental Regulation in Britain
Environmental Regulation in Britain: the 1980s to the Present
The Creation of the Environment Agency
Mission in the Environment Agency
6 The Institutional Structure of the
Environment Agency
7 Culture Clash in the Environment Agency
Appendix A – The Interviews
Appendix B – The Use of Case Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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“The Environmental Protection
Agency is an important book.
Drawing on a wealth of original research including primary sources
and extensive interviews, Robert McMahon provides the first comprehensive
comparative study of the American and British environmental protection
agencies with accounts of how they were established, their distinctive
institutional and organizational features and their effectiveness.
However, McMahon does more than simply analytically narrate these
agencies’ origins and work: he develops and persuasively defends
a distinct theoretical analysis about these green bureaucracies as
types of organizations shaped by their institutional design and internal
cultural norms. The result is an original and impressive book which
will be of interest of scholars and students of bureaucracy, the
environment, and British and American politics. I recommend The Environmental
Protection Agency highly.” Desmond King, Mellon Professor of
American Government, Oxford University
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