This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: The Property Rights Movement and Regulatory Takings
The property rights "movement," a coalition of mineral industry actors, anti-government propagandists, and local economic interests, is best viewed as a backlash aimed at regulations associated with environmental protection and public lands conservation policy. Using a combination of interviews and archival research, Olivetti and Worsham examine the interplay between attempts to set the property rights agenda in Congress, the Courts, and at the state level. They find that having failed to...
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Worsham (political science, West Virginia U.) and Olivetti (a graduate student of Worsham's whose dissertation was on the property rights movement) have written a short, pithy study tracing the history of the property rights movement. The movement's formation in opposition to land appropriation according to environmental rules, the makeup of the movement's constituents, and their shifting strategies in court and the legislative branch are the main topics. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1Introduction12Changing the Tide of Events53Modern Environmentalism and the Property Rights Movement214The Courts as a Venue495The Property Issue in Congress736If at First you do not Succeed117App: Takings Legislation133Notes145References149Index165
