Movement goals became institutionalized as federal policy across agencies.

Evidence

One lasting success of the Environmental Justice Movement is that its goals and principles have been institutionalized as federal policy, representing a profound institutional transformation on the widest scale. This institutionalization has occurred within individual federal agencies and across the executive branch of the federal government. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 708

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Establishes ā€˜institutional transformation’ as the book’s term for movement goals being absorbed into federal agencies and the executive branch.
  • XREF: connects to: Clinton’s 1994 Executive Order made environmental justice official federal policy — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 709; Public institutional routines change incrementally rather than through wholesale overhauls — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 424

Broader Connections