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100			_aSwitzer, David _910058
245			_aCitizen partisanship, local government, and environmental policy implementation
260			_bUrban Affairs Review _c2019
300			_a55(3), May, 2019: p.675-702.
520			_aLocal governments play a large, if understudied, role in the implementation of environmental policy in the United States. The major environmental statutes outline explicit responsibilities for the federal and state governments in enforcement under a cooperative federalism framework, and a literature on environmental federalism has developed looking at how variables at the state level affect implementation. Largely ignored by this literature is the important part local governments play in implementation. This study explores one way local politics may influence implementation, investigating the effect of citizen preferences on municipal compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The findings show that utilities in Democratic leaning areas violate the SDWA less frequently than those in Republican leaning areas. The results suggest that just as politics influence environmental policy implementation at the federal and state levels, the local role in environmental policy is inherently tied to the political incentives facing municipalities. - Reproduced.
650			_aLocal government _910059
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
906			_aEnvironmental policy
942			_cAR