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Streamlining local behaviour through communication, incentives and control: a case study of local environmental policies in China
Abgestimmtes Verhalten durch Kommunikation, Incentives und Kontrolle: eine Fallstudie lokaler Umweltpolitik in China
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Abstract This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on high... view more
This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on higher levels for flexible adjustment of implementation policies according to local conditions. However, decentralisation is accompanied by significant institutional changes in the structure of intergovernmental communication, incentives and control. Accordingly, decentralisation in China exhibits a specific design which leaves space for divergent local environmental policies while also engendering "grass-roots mechanisms". On the whole, this new institutional setting benefits the implementation of environmental policies.... view less
Keywords
control; environmental behavior; environmental policy; environmental protection; Far East; administrative practice; regional factors; local factors; evaluation; implementation; decentralization; incentive system; China; local politics
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Method
qualitative empirical; descriptive study; empirical
Free Keywords
Political science; Environmental policy; decentralisation; cadres; Contemporary
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 77-112
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 40 (2011) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works