STATE ADOPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT INITIATIVES

Sarah L. Stafford

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2006, vol. 24, issue 1, 172-187

Abstract: This article examines the factors that affect state adoption of environmental audit legislation and self‐policing policies. The results of both a cross‐section probit and a Weibull proportional hazard model suggest that political context and state–federal relationships are key factors in adoption decisions while environmental conditions are less significant and institutional capacity is the least important. Overall, the results for audit privilege and immunity legislation are very similar, but several explanatory factors affect adoption of audit legislation and self‐policing policies in opposite ways. Finally, these results also suggest that EPA opposition to audit legislation has had a significant deterrent effect. (JEL D78, Q28, K32)

Date: 2006
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