The Political Regulation Wave: A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically Shape Air Quality in China

ISBN-13: 9781009107099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 161 str.

California) Shen Shiran Victoria (Stanford University

Opis

Offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives impact bureaucratic regulation, using the case of air pollution control.

Recenzje

'Expert warnings about that existential threat that environmental degradation and climate change pose to our way of life has become increasingly more desperate. Scientific solutions are available, but governments have made little progress in implementing them. Shiran Victoria Shen persuasively leverages expertise in the social and physical sciences to demonstrate that a critical political economy issue is that bureaucratic incentives for implementation are not appropriately matched to the specific causes of individual pollutants in authoritarian regimes, particularly China. More broadly, this book is a must read for those interested in a nuanced understanding of bureaucratic politics in authoritarian systems.' Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Duke Center for International Development, Duke University

Spis treści

1. Introduction: an inconvenient truth; 2. Theory of the political regulation wave; 3. Local governance in China; 4. The case of sulfur dioxide control; 5. The case of fine particulate matter control; 6. The tradeoffs of the political regulation wave; 7. Conclusion: rethinking governance.