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

• Main Author: Victoria Shen, Shiran (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Series: Social Sciences
• Subjects: Political economy; Environmental economics; Political science & theory; political theory; environmental law and engineering; China studies; air pollution studies
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Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can systematically affect bureaucratic regulation and empirically examines the control of different air pollutants in China a...