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Adopting Local Environmental Institutions

Environmental Need and Economic Constraints

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

David M. Konisky

University of Missouri, Columbia

Communities are increasingly turning to local environmental institutions (LEIs) to address unmet environmental challenges. Yet there has been very little empirical analysis of LEIs, and we know surprisingly little about their origins. In this article, the authors use a rational choice framework to examine the incentives and disincentives communities face in deciding whether to establish LEIs. In particular, the authors study the decision of communities to adopt local wetlands bylaws under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act. Using event history analysis, the authors find strong evidence that environmental need, economic attributes, and economic constraints have strong effects on the impulse of communities to adopt LEIs.

Key Words: local environmental institutions • policy adoption • wetlands protection

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1, 3-16 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1065912906298533


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