This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: The Property Rights Movement and Regulatory Takings

This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: The Property Rights Movement and Regulatory Takings
Alfred M. Olivetti, Jr., and Jeff Worsham
March 2004

ISBN-13:  978-1-931202-41-1 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / xii, 170 pages

Price   $55.00

Description

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 take control of the congressional agenda, the movement engages in a vertical shift, focusing its efforts on the states and through state level challenges, the federal courts.

About the Author

Alfred M. Olivetti, Jr., is Owner and CEO of Go Tri Sports, Inc, in Hilton Head, SC. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from West Virginia University. Jeff Worsham is Associate Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.