Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States.

The author, Susan Rose-Ackerman, dispels the notion that Germany should be the mold from which other nations' environmental policies should be cast. She compares regulatory law and policy in the United States and Germany. Focusing on the political and social implications of Germany and Eastern Europe's newly democratic status, this work argues that the American system can provide lessons for those seeking to reform environmental policy-making in Eastern Europe. The reader is invited to review the direction of the German system as it moves away from the. rulemaking process and toward a focus on individual complaints. Finally, the author urges the reader to question the wisdom of such a movement.