How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
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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.
Los Angeles’s struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has h...
Los Angeles’s struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has h...
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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.
Los Angeles’s struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has h...
Los Angeles’s struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the clout business has h...
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