Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System: A Test of the Sabatier-Mazmanian Model

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Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state implementation is a function of technical uncertainty, agency competence, and the economic importance of target groups. They also find that there are differences between the nonimplementing states.

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