pp. 467-494
“Whither We Are Tending”: Interrogating the Retrenchment Narrative in U.S. Environmental Policy
DAVID J. SOUSA and Christopher McGrory Klyza argue that environmental policy moves in the direction favored by environmentalists due to the strong statutes that constitute the policy landscape. They find that this runs counter to the retrenchment narrative, which argues the opposite.
Beyond Gridlock: Green Drift in American Environmental Policymaking, Christopher McGrory Klyza and David Sousa
Join the Academy of Political Science and automatically receive Political Science Quarterly.
APS Forum | Book Talk - The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace
June 22, 2026
WEBINAR
CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL SCIENCE
Governing by Decree: The Trump Presidency and the Decline of “Legislating Together”
Desmond King
Publishing since 1886, PSQ is the most widely read and accessible scholarly journal with distinguished contributors such as: Lisa Anderson, Robert A. Dahl, Samuel P. Huntington, Robert Jervis, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Theda Skocpol, Woodrow Wilson
view additional issuesArticles | Book reviews
The Academy of Political Science, promotes objective, scholarly analyses of political, social, and economic issues. Through its conferences and publications APS provides analysis and insight into both domestic and foreign policy issues.
With neither an ideological nor a partisan bias, PSQ looks at facts and analyzes data objectively to help readers understand what is really going on in national and world affairs.