Contents -- Series Foreword: Conservative Ideas and Their Consequences -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Roadmap -- Chapter 2: Discerning the Impact of Conservative Ideas -- Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Change -- Promoting Policy Change -- Policy and Political Outcomes -- Using the Framework to Make Sense of Politics -- Chapter 3: The Environmental Decade and the Conservative Backlash, 1970 - 1980 -- Institutionalizing the Environmental Storyline -- The Rise of Antiregulatory Conservatism -- The Emergence of an Antiregulatory Storyline -- The Carter Administration -- Environmentalism and the Rise of Conservatism in the 1970s -- Chapter 4: Ronald Reagan Brings Conservatism to the White House -- The Antiregulatory Storyline Gains Traction -- Ronald Reagan Articulates a Conservative Public Philosophy -- Institutionalizing the Antiregulatory Storyline During President Reagan's First Term -- Reagan's Second Term -- Antiregulatory Ideas Gain a Foothold -- Chapter 5: Conservative Ideas Gain Ground Under George H. W. Bush -- Policy Learning about Pollution Control -- Popularizing the Antiregulatory Storyline -- Creating and Capitalizing on New Think Tanks -- Environmental Governance under President George H. W. Bush -- People First! -- Antiregulatory Ideas Make Progress in the Courts -- Environmental Protection Atrophies under George H. W. Bush -- Chapter 6: Bill Clinton Confronts a Conservative Congress -- Creating a Proenvironmental Context, with an Antiregulatory Twist -- Conservatives Step Up the War of Ideas -- A Conservative Congress Challenges Environmental Restrictions -- Making Air-Pollution-Control Policy More Restrictive, While Adding Flexibility -- Saving the Endangered Species Act by Making It More Permissive -- Preventing Action to Address Climate Change -- Conservative Ideas Advance in the Courts.

Clinton's Compromises Fail to Quell Dissent -- Chapter 7: George W. Bush Advances Conservatives' Antiregulatory Agenda -- George W. Bush's Rhetoric on the Environment -- Creating an Antiregulatory Context through Appointments, Budgets, and Regulatory Centralization -- Conservatives Gain Clout in Congress -- Drifting on Air Pollution Control -- Making the Endangered Species Act More Permissive -- Preventing Action on Climate Change -- Bush Takes an Antiregulatory Position on Climate Change -- Quietly Undermining Environmental Protection -- Chapter 8: The Consequences of a Conservative Era -- Conservatives' Impact on Environmental Policy, 1970-2008 -- Conservatives' Political Impacts -- Environmental Politics and Policy under Obama -- Engineering a Progressive Transformation -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index.