Policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements

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This chapter examines the policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements. Part one focuses on the broad outcomes environmental movements pursue, both in terms of substantive policy change and routinized access to political systems. Part two applies a staged model of the policy-making process to elaborate the ways in which environmental movements influence legislation: setting agendas, influencing the content of laws, the passage of legislation, and its implementation. Part three examines the ways in which environmental movements seek to exert influence: by building organizational capacity, conducting disruptive protest, and participating in governance structures. We advance the thesis that diversity in movement composition and tactics provides numerous advantages that further the goals of environmental movements. The final piece of the chapter examines the case of climate change legislation in the United States, which we see as poised for change in the near future.

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