Toxic Politics

China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State

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ID19909798
AuthorsYanzhong Huang (0000-0001-7501-2186, Seton Hall University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-09-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueToxic Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108895132
OpenAlexW4242591526
Open LibraryOL34761669M
ISBN9781108895132
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic Politics, Yanzhong Huang presents new evidence of China's deepening health crisis and challenges the widespread view that China is winning the war on pollution. Although government leaders are learning, stricter and more centralized policy enforcement measures have not been able to substantially reduce pollution or improve public health. Huang connects this failure to pathologies inherent in the institutional structure of the Chinese party-state, which embeds conflicting incentives for officials and limits the capacity of the state to deliver public goods. Toxic Politics reveals a political system that is remarkably resilient but fundamentally flawed. Huang examines the implications for China's future, both domestically and internationally

China · Development economics · Economics · Enforcement · Government (linguistics) · Incentive · Legitimacy · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · State (computer science) · Toll · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Environmental health · Environmental policy · Environmental sciences · Government policy · Pollution prevention

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