A01=Robert Kelley
american decision making
american political culture
Author_Robert Kelley
california
Category=RNC
Category=RNF
Category=TNF
democratic party
drains
environmental engineering
environmental policy making
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flooding
levees
national political culture
natural disasters
productive
rainy season
regional politics planning
republican party
sacramento valley
summer months
Product details
- ISBN 9780520214286
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 149 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.
Robert Kelley is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of The Shaping of the American Past and several other highly esteemed books.
