Mining Environmental Policy. Comparing Indonesia and the USA
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Author(s): M. Hamilton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0754644936
Format: hardback
290pp
Price: £65.00, $124.95
Review Date: 10 February 2006
Review: Comparative policy research compares governments’ policies and the consequences of them. Using this approach, this book explores how the contextual factors, legal resources, and organizational variables function to determine regulatory decisions in Indonesia concerning environmental control of coal-mining operations. Comparative analysis of coal-development and environmental policies in the US and Indonesia shows how political culture and institutions affect policy structure and implementation at the convergence of these two related policy areas. The comparison shows up some stark contrasts, some surprising results about the diffusion of policy innovations from country to country, and examples of successes and failures.