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Ringquist, Evan J., Jeff Worsham, and Marc Allen Eisner (2003), Salience,
Complexity, and the Legislative Direction of Regulatory Bureaucracies,
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 13, 141–64.
Ryan, Neal (1996), A Comparison of Three Approaches to Programme
Implementation, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 9,
34-41.
Sabatier, Paul A. (1988), An Advocacy Coalition Model of Policy Change and the
Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein, Policy Sciences, Vol. 21, 129-168.
Sabatier, Paul, and Daniel Mazmanian (1980), The Implementation of Public Policy:
A Framework of Analysis, in Mazmanian, Daniel and Paul Sabatier (eds.),
Effective Policy Implementation, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Saetren, Harald (2005), Facts and Myths about Research on Public Policy
Implementation: Out-of-fashion, Allegedly Dead, But Still Very Much Alive
and Relevant, Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 33, 559–82.
SCAQMD (2008), Annual RECLAIM Audit Report for the 2006 Compliance Year,
March 7, 2008.
SCAQMD (2007), Over a Dozen Years of RECLAIM Implementation: Key Lessons
Learned in California’s First Air Pollution Cap-and-Trade Program, June,
2007.
SCAQMD (2005), Annual RECLAIM Audit Report for the 2003 Compliance Year.
Schofield, Jill (2001), Time for a Revival? Public Policy Implementation: A Review
of the Literature and an Agenda for Future Research, International Journal of
Management Reviews, Vol. 3, 245–263.
Schwarze, Reimund, and Zapfel, Peter (2000), Sulfur Allowance Trading and the
Regional Clean Air Incentives Market: A Comparative Design Analysis of
Two Major Cap-and-Trade Permit Programs?, Environmental and Resource
Economics, Vol. 17, 279-298.
Shulman, Stuart W., David Schlosberg, Steve Zavestoski, and Drake Courard-Hauri
(2003), Electronic Rulemaking: A Public Participation Research Agenda for
the Social Sciences, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 21, 162-178.
Shuwen, Jolene Lin (2004), Assessing the Dragon’s Choice: the Use of Market-based
Instruments in Chinese Environmental Policy, Georgetown International
Environmental Law Review, Vol. 16(4), 617-655
Skelcher, Chris (2007), Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on
Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments, Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 17 (1), 61-76.
Soleille, Sébastien (2006), Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Schemes: a New Tool
for the Environmental Regulator’s Kit, Energy Policy, 34,1473–1477.
Object Description
| Title | Processes, effects, and the implementation of market-based environmental policy: southern California's experiences with emissions trading |
| Author | Zhan, Xueyong |
| Author email | xzhan@usc.edu; xueyongzhan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Public Administration |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-07-01 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Tang, Shui-Yan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Mazmanian, Daniel A. Henry, Ronald |
| Abstract | This research provides a positive explanation of the implementation processes and effects of market-based environmental policy by conducting a case study on RECLAIM (Regional Clean Air Incentives Market), the first regional emission permits trading program that has been implemented by South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to address air pollution problems in the Los Angeles air basin since 1994.; Firstly, I developed a game theoretic model of environmental policy implementation. This model integrates theories of administrative rulemaking, policy implementation, institutional rational choice and transaction cost politics. I argue that administrative agency tries to minimize political transaction costs of policy implementation when writing rules.; Based on the formal model, I conducted a quantitative analysis to examine the interactions between SCAQMD and its key stakeholders, such as federal, state and local governments, businesses, and environmental NGOs, during the rulemaking of RECLAIM. I found that SCAQMD is more likely to adopt rule changes suggested by state and federal environmental agencies. This research identifies the dominant role of organized interest groups, the existence of interagency lobbying, and the lack of citizen control over the rulemaking of RECLAIM. Furthermore, I conducted an evaluation of the rules governing the RECLAIM program, and I identify the major distortions of the RECLAIM rules in comparison with an ideal cap-and-trade emissions trading market. Also, I used OLS regression to examine the effects of policy difference on emission level in California between 1990 and 1999. This evaluation fails to reject the null hypothesis that using cap-and-trade (CAT) compared with using command-and-control (CAC) has no different effects on emission of both NOx and SO2 from point sources at the county level in California in the 1990's.; In summary, this research finds that the implementation of emissions trading is political, and interest group politics may distort the regulatory design and implementation of an emissions trading program. While cap-and-trade is promising to better protect our environment and natural resources, its implementation is conditioned by many political and administrative factors. Inadequate rules may come as the results of political compromises, and they may impact the functioning of an emissions trading system. |
| Keyword | emissions trading; rulemaking; RECLAIM; implementation; environmental governance |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 1990/2000 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1719 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zhan, Xueyong |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zhan-2335 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Zhan-2335.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 157 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 146 Ringquist, Evan J., Jeff Worsham, and Marc Allen Eisner (2003), Salience, Complexity, and the Legislative Direction of Regulatory Bureaucracies, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 13, 141–64. Ryan, Neal (1996), A Comparison of Three Approaches to Programme Implementation, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 9, 34-41. Sabatier, Paul A. (1988), An Advocacy Coalition Model of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein, Policy Sciences, Vol. 21, 129-168. Sabatier, Paul, and Daniel Mazmanian (1980), The Implementation of Public Policy: A Framework of Analysis, in Mazmanian, Daniel and Paul Sabatier (eds.), Effective Policy Implementation, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. Saetren, Harald (2005), Facts and Myths about Research on Public Policy Implementation: Out-of-fashion, Allegedly Dead, But Still Very Much Alive and Relevant, Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 33, 559–82. SCAQMD (2008), Annual RECLAIM Audit Report for the 2006 Compliance Year, March 7, 2008. SCAQMD (2007), Over a Dozen Years of RECLAIM Implementation: Key Lessons Learned in California’s First Air Pollution Cap-and-Trade Program, June, 2007. SCAQMD (2005), Annual RECLAIM Audit Report for the 2003 Compliance Year. Schofield, Jill (2001), Time for a Revival? Public Policy Implementation: A Review of the Literature and an Agenda for Future Research, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 3, 245–263. Schwarze, Reimund, and Zapfel, Peter (2000), Sulfur Allowance Trading and the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market: A Comparative Design Analysis of Two Major Cap-and-Trade Permit Programs?, Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 17, 279-298. Shulman, Stuart W., David Schlosberg, Steve Zavestoski, and Drake Courard-Hauri (2003), Electronic Rulemaking: A Public Participation Research Agenda for the Social Sciences, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 21, 162-178. Shuwen, Jolene Lin (2004), Assessing the Dragon’s Choice: the Use of Market-based Instruments in Chinese Environmental Policy, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 16(4), 617-655 Skelcher, Chris (2007), Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 17 (1), 61-76. Soleille, Sébastien (2006), Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Schemes: a New Tool for the Environmental Regulator’s Kit, Energy Policy, 34,1473–1477. |
