Affiliation:
1. East Asian Politics at the Institute of East Asian
Studies and the Institute of Political Science at the University of
Duisburg-Essen.
2. Institute of East Asian Studies and the managing
director of the Confucius Institute of Metropolis Ruhr at the University of
Duisburg-Essen.
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 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 “grassroots mechanisms”. On the whole, this new institutional setting benefits the implementation of environmental policies.
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
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