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Urban Policies and Transporation in So. Calif.

This research examines the interrelationship between urban policies affecting transportation and various Chicano/Chicana (also Hispanic, Latino) communities of Southern California. The research will set forth the context in which transportation issues have achieved resonance with Hispanic demographic groups in Southern California and then discuss means by which interest-group advocacy and conflict have organized around these issues in an effort to influence the course of public policy.

A trenchant examination of environmental public policy in the United States during the early years of the scandal-ridden Environmental Protection Agency of the Reagan administration criticizes the way Reagan's first-term EPA offered covert "sweetheart deals" to long-term industrial polluters, even as it presented a facade of negotiation, committees, and compromise. The text authors (Bacow & Wheeler, 1984) advocate public negotiations, where competing interests may collide for all to see. In certain cases, they suggest, judicial review of procedures and policies may be necessary.

Another view (Gray, 1989) is that there are disadvantages to "pluralistic" solutions to environmental disputes. Pluralism implies inequality, inasmuch as some groups have more resources and carry more weight than others. Competition can also lead to stalemate, with resolution thereof possibly coming from governmental authority. There is also the issue of whether government authority would be exercised on behalf of the public interest or on behalf of sectarian or industrial interests--each of which may have unequal standing or influence on outcomes.

The relevance of environmental and economic issue fronts on one hand and on the other the presence of multiple stakeholding constituencies to the present research is that they frame the context for understanding the impact of transportation issues, on Southern California's Hispanic population. Transportation issues in Californ...

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