Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada - Softcover

Montpetit, Éric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774809094 ISBN 13: 9780774809092

Publisher: UBC Press, 2004

Synopsis

Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that national and international governance is inadequate, believing not only that public authorities are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation, and implementation of policy choices is untrustworthy. Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as case studies, Éric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of this distrust through careful attention to the performance of the relevant policy networks. He concludes that distrust in policy networks is, for the most part, misplaced because high levels of performance by policy networks are more common than many political analysts and citizens expect.

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About the Author

Éric Montpetit is with the Département de sciencepolitique at the Université de Montréal.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774809094
• ISBN 13: 9780774809092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336