Information, Interests, and Environmental Regulation |
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Authors: | Søren C. Winter Peter J. May |
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Affiliation: | (1) Political Science & Public Administration, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, DK-1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark;(2) Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Campus Box 353530, Seattle, WA, 98195-3530 |
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Abstract: | This study contributes to the understanding of informational approaches to bringing about compliance with environmental regulations with particular attention to differences in the influence of information provided by different information sources. Based on theorizing from a combination of information processing and interest group literatures, we develop hypotheses about regulatees' reliance upon and the influence of different sources of information. We test these hypotheses for Danish farmers' compliance with agro-environmental rules. Our findings show that information plays a role in bringing about regulatory compliance, but its influence is not as strong and is less direct than might be thought to be the case. In addition, we show that not all information sources have the same influence. The findings demonstrate that interest groups have important roles in information provision and legitimization of policies that have often been assumed in the literature but have rarely been empirically examined. |
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Keywords: | environmental regulation regulatory compliance information interest group legitimization |
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