Clean Water Policy and State Choice

John C. Morris is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He has studied environmental policy and water policy for more than twenty-five years, and has published widely in public administration and public policy. He is the co-editor of Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South (2010), and True Green: Executive Effectiveness in the US Environmental Protection Agency (2012). He is co-editor of Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development (2008); co-editor of a three-volume series Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry (2012); and Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and Evidence (2016). His most recent books include The Case for Grassroots Collaboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level (2013, with others); State Politics and the Affordable Care Act: Choices and Decisions (2019, with others); and Organizational Motivation for Collaboration: Theory and Evidence (2019, with Diaz-Kope). In addition, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports.

1. Setting the Stage: Clean Water, Federal Policy Goals, and State Choice; 2. Reagan Federalism, States' Rights, and the Revolving Loan Fund Model; 3. The Foundations of Water Quality Policy in the United States; 4. Expansion and Contraction in the Federal Role in Water Policy; 5. Features of the Water Quality Act of 1987; 6. A Model of State Implementation of the Water Quality Act of 1987; 7. Initial State Implementation of the Revolving Loan Fund Model; 8. Implementation “On the Ground”: Four Case Studies; 9. The Distributional Impacts of the CWSRF: A National Analysis; 10. Promise and Performance: State Choice and National Water Quality Goals; Appendices; References; Index.