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How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance-Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta

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ID4073744
AuthorsLiming Suo (Nankai University), Xue Li (0000-0003-2994-8930, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author), Shuai Cao (0000-0002-3675-626X, The Ohio State University)
Year2023
Volume40
Issue4
Pages509-533
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Policy Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ropr.12541
OpenAlexW4318715561
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited63

Regional public affairs will become more complex when contradictions emerge between administrative boundaries and policy issues that require cross-boundary collaboration. Breaking administrative boundaries has become a prerequisite for facilitating inter-local government collaboration. This study categorizes governance boundaries into the administrative boundary and the ecology-based policy boundary and then examines how these two governance boundaries and their interactive relationship contribute to the intergovernmental collaboration network in China's regional atmospheric governance (RAG). Using data on the atmospheric governance collaboration from 30 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2013 to 2018, we employ the MR-QAP model to find that cities within the same administrative boundary are more likely to collaborate and cities within the ecology-based policy boundary, compared with those beyond, are more likely to collaborate but with a lagging effect. Ecology-based policy boundary has a positive but lagging moderating effect on the contribution of the administrative boundary to the formation of intergovernmental collaboration networks

Biology · Business · China · Collaborative governance · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Lagging · Political science · Politics · Yangtze river · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Ecology

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Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
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