Partisanship and Special Interest Influence on Environmental Policy as Illustrated through Statewide Plastic Bag Policies

• In Event: Interest Groups, Coalitions, and Environmental Policy

Brief Overview

With plastic waste rapidly becoming a global crisis, this study looks at the partisan nature of plastic bag legislation, impacts of interparty competition, and the $10 billion plastic bag industry’s lobbying efforts to protect their product.

Author

• Jennifer Coryell, Eastern Illinois University