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State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates

State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates This research addresses state requirements that public facilities be constructed as “green buildings” that promote environmental friendly, energy efficient, and healthy workplaces. We consider state choices to adopt green building mandates and the form of their policy enactment. In considering the way that low salience issues like green buildings get on state agendas and the circumstances under which governors decide to engage the issue, we extend William Gormley's (1986) depiction of “board room” regulatory politics. State energy agencies provide an attention‐focusing role while governors behave strategically in deciding whether to issue executive orders about green buildings. This research adds to the growing understanding of states as innovators in aspects of environmental policy not normally subject to state regulation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Policy Research Wiley

State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates

May, Peter J.; Koski, Chris
Review of Policy Research , Volume 24 (1) – Jan 1, 2007
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Wiley
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Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1541-132X
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1541-1338
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10.1111/j.1541-1338.2007.00267.x
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This research addresses state requirements that public facilities be constructed as “green buildings” that promote environmental friendly, energy efficient, and healthy workplaces. We consider state choices to adopt green building mandates and the form of their policy enactment. In considering the way that low salience issues like green buildings get on state agendas and the circumstances under which governors decide to engage the issue, we extend William Gormley's (1986) depiction of “board room” regulatory politics. State energy agencies provide an attention‐focusing role while governors behave strategically in deciding whether to issue executive orders about green buildings. This research adds to the growing understanding of states as innovators in aspects of environmental policy not normally subject to state regulation.

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Review of Policy Research – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2007

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