10.2190/1GD5-FQD2-6E22-TEGY 1GD5FQD26E22TEGY 6 Policy Elite Perceptions: Canada, The United States and Acid Rain 97 108 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 1GD5FQD26E22TEGY.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=1GD5FQD26E22TEGY 1 Leslie R. Alm Boise State University, Idaho This study investigates the perceptions of policy elites (researchers/scientists and members of the affected governments, industries, and environmental groups) in the United States and Canada with respect to the formation and implementation of environmental policy. The setting is the debate over acid rain policy that was carried out between Canada and the United States from the late 1970s until the signing of the 1991 Air Quality Accord. The findings suggest that despite the passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the signing of the 1991 Air Quality Accord, there exists little faith on both sides of the border that the implementation of these acts will effectively deal with the acid rain problem. B. S. Steel et al., Consensus and Dissension among Contemporary Environmental Activists: Preservationists and Conservationists in the U. S. and Canadian Context, <i>Government and Planning, 8</i>, pp. 379-393, 1990. M. A. Steger et al., Information Source Reliance and Knowledge Acquisition: Canada/U. S. Comparisons Regarding Acid Rain, <i>The Western Political Quarterly, 41</i>, pp. 474-764, 1988. J. C. Pierce et al., <i>In Bed with an Elephant: Canadian and American Public and Activist Perceptions of Responsibility for Acid Rain</i>, paper delivered at the Tenth Biennial Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, San Francisco, California, November 17-20, 1989. W. Winegard et al., <i>Canada and the United States in the 1990s: An Emerging Partnership</i>, Brassey's Inc., Washington, D. C., 1991. R. Gould, <i>Going Sour: Science and Politics of Acid Rain</i>, Birkhauser, Boston, 1985. E. J. Yanarella and R. H. Ihara (eds.), <i>The Acid Rain Debate: Scientific, Economic, and Political Dimensions</i>, Westview Press, Boulder, 1985. A. M. Kahan, <i>Acid Rain: Reign of Controversy</i>, Fulcrum Inc., Golden, Colorado, 1986. J. Regens and R. Rycroft, <i>The Acid Rain Controversy</i>, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1988. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, 1990 Integrated Assessment Report, NAPAP, Washington, D. C., 1990. J. W. Kingdon, <i>Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies</i>, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1984. L. R. Alm, The Long Road toward Influence: Canada as an American Interest Group, <i>Journal of Borderlands Studies, 8</i>, pp. 1-20, 1993. E. Cataldo, Acid Rain Policy in the United States: An Exploration of Canadian Influence, <i>The Social Science Journal, 29</i>, pp. 395-409, 1992. D. Munton and G. Castle, Air, Water, and Political Fire: Building a North American Regime, in <i>Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes</i>, C. Cutler and M. Zacher (eds.), University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1992. J. E. Carroll, <i>Environmental Policy</i>, National Planning Association, Washington, D. C., 1986.