Methodism: Empire of the SpiritYale University Press, 1 ene 2005 - 304 páginas Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically-grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules, those that have done the most good, have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA. Schoenbrod succeeds admirably in presenting a provocative analysis of the contemporary state of environmental law and policy. He makes a strong challenge to conventional wisdom. Richard B. Stewart, School of Law, Center on Environment and Land Use Law, New York University This engaging book brings environmental policy analysis alive with personal experiences pithy examples, and human interest stories. It challenges blithe acceptance of the status quo. Terry L. Anderson, executive director, PERC, and senior fellow, Hoover Institution |
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... Methodism's New History appeared ) can best be explained as a much - modified continuation of the Methodist holiness ... societies and quirky person- alities in England in the 1730s to a major international religious move- ment some ...
... Methodism's New History appeared ) can best be explained as a much - modified continuation of the Methodist holiness ... societies and quirky person- alities in England in the 1730s to a major international religious move- ment some ...
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... out with Wesley over his controversial ordination by the Greek émigré Bishop Erasmus, served the earliest Methodist societies in Newfoundland in the 1760s. Coughlan was eventually ordained by competition and symbiosis 19.
... out with Wesley over his controversial ordination by the Greek émigré Bishop Erasmus, served the earliest Methodist societies in Newfoundland in the 1760s. Coughlan was eventually ordained by competition and symbiosis 19.
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... Methodist society and building the first Methodist chapel in America. But the story does not end there. Forming Methodist societies along the way, the Hecks later migrated up the Hudson Valley and then, as Empire Loyalists, on to ...
... Methodist society and building the first Methodist chapel in America. But the story does not end there. Forming Methodist societies along the way, the Hecks later migrated up the Hudson Valley and then, as Empire Loyalists, on to ...
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... Methodist itinerant and local preachers throughout the English - speaking ... Methodist structure that was built for mobility and an international order of ... societies as they traveled.13 Through its Anglican inheritance , and its ...
... Methodist itinerant and local preachers throughout the English - speaking ... Methodist structure that was built for mobility and an international order of ... societies as they traveled.13 Through its Anglican inheritance , and its ...
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... Methodist anti - elitism was infused with moral discipline through societies formed to promote temperance , frugality , and indus- try . As the geographical radius of markets expanded beyond eastern Massachusetts to embrace a new ...
... Methodist anti - elitism was infused with moral discipline through societies formed to promote temperance , frugality , and indus- try . As the geographical radius of markets expanded beyond eastern Massachusetts to embrace a new ...
Índice
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Three The Medium and the Message | 55 |
Four Opposition and Conflict | 86 |
Five Money and Power | 109 |
Six Boundaries and Margins | 131 |
Seven Mapping and Mission | 151 |
Eight Consolidation and Decline | 178 |
Nine Methodisms Rise and Fall | 202 |
Methodist Membership and Rates of Change United States and United Kingdom | 211 |
Chronology | 217 |
Notes | 227 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 259 |
Index | 269 |
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