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

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

University of North Carolina Press
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Author/Contributor(s): Elkind, Sarah S
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date: 08/01/2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.