Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State, Second Edition

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Part I: The Environment as an Administrative Problem 1. Environmental Administration: Revising the Agenda of Inquiry and Practice  Douglas Torgerson and Robert Paehlke 2. Obsolescent Leviathan: Problems of Order in Administrative Thought Douglas Torgerson 3. Democracy and Environmentalism: Opening a Door to the Administrative State?  Robert Paehlke Part II: Techniques and Processes of Environmental Administration 4. Ecological Reason in Administration: Environmental Impact Assessment and Green Politics  Robert V. Bartlett 5. Environmental Regulation and Risk-Benefit Analysis: From Technical to Deliberative Policy Making  Frank Fischer 6. Designs for Environmental Discourse Revisited: A Greener Administrative State?  John S. Dryzek 7. The Ambivalence of Discourse: Beyond the Administrative Mind?  Douglas Torgerson Part III: The Politics of Environmental Administration 8. Class, Place, and Citizenship: The Changing Dynamics of Environmental Protection  Ted Schrecker 9. We Just Don't Know: Lessons about Complexity and Uncertainty in Canadian Environmental Politics Robert Gibson 10. Environmental Politics and Policy Professionalism: Agenda-Setting, Problem Definition, and Epistemology Douglas Torgerson 11. Depoliticizing Environmental Politics: Sustainable Development in Norway  Ingerid S. Straume 12. Democratic Deliberation and Environmental Policy: Opportunities and Barriers in Britain  Graham Smith 13. Outside the State: Australian Green Politics and the Public Inquiry into Uranium  Timothy Doyle 14. Participation and Agency: Hybrid Identities in the European Quest for Sustainable Development Andrew Jamison 15. Responses to Environmental Threats in an Age of Globalization  Jennifer Clapp 16. Green Governance and the Green State: Capacity Building as a Political Project Peter Christoff Conclusion 17. Environmental Politics and the Administrative State Robert Paehlke and Douglas Torgerson Index

About the Author :
Robert Paehlke is Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University. He has previously authored Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics (Yale University Press, 1989 and 1991) and Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity and the Global Economy (MIT Press, 2003 and 2004). Douglas Torgerson is Professor and Director, Centre for Theory, Culture and Politics, at Trent University. He is the author of The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere (Duke University Press, 1999) and past editor of the journal Policy Sciences.

Review :
This collection of writing goes to the heart of the fundamental structural challenge in environmental policy and management in modern developed societies. Anyone wishing to explore the cutting edge of environmental policy and management will find this book an invaluable tool. --The Honourable David Anderson, PC, Member of Parliament for Victoria, Minister of Environment, Government of Canada, 1999-2004 My well-thumbed first edition of Managing Leviathan has been an invaluable teaching and research aide. Its pages contain several of the wisest of insights into the complex links between structures of government and environment regarding policy and regulatory outcomes. Now my reliable old friend has been superseded by an updated version, one that retains all the strengths of the parent, whilst adding new contributions that are as important as they are timely. The new edition will be welcomed by all those who share my belief that, in the vexed times in which we live, there is a pressing need to overcome government's structural bias against environmental imperatives. Managing Leviathan points to ways through this long-standing impasse. It deals--brilliantly--with subjects of surpassing importance. For those in search of planetary solutions, this book is essential reading. --Peter Hay, University of Tasmania, Australia This classic of environmental social and political theory has been thoroughly reworked to take Leviathan out of North America and put it into the world. On this broad canvas the argument that greater public involvement and integrated governance are the foundations of more effective and more legitimate environmental policy seem utterly convincing. I hope that politicians as well as academics read this book. --Andrew Dobson, author of Green Political Thought, The Open University, UK