Environmental policy innovations in China
A Critical Analysis From a Low-Carbon City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Shin (0000-0002-7041-8061, National Tsing Hua University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 830-851 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2018.1449573 |
| OpenAlex | W2792336946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 32 |
The Chinese state is squarely ‘back’ in the business of environmental governance with an increasing number of policy innovations or experiments to resolve environmental issues. These have been mostly enacted through the ‘experimentation under hierarchy’ framework, undergirded by compensation-for-performance incentive structures for local agents. Based on on-site ethnography in local China, a critical analysis is presented of low-carbon city policy experiments – one of the most prominent environmental policies introduced in the past decade. Using lessons from the agency theory, it is hypothesized that outcomes of these policy innovations are contingent on different policy dimensions. Although a number of positive outcomes have been achieved in output-oriented dimensions, the fundamental difficulty of specifying all aspects of complex, multidimensional work tasks involved in low-carbon city development has frequently led to policy unmaking. The findings raise important questions about China’s tendency to rely excessively on compensation-for-performance structures to promote environmental policies
Business · China · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Environmental economics · Environmental governance · Environmental policy · Hierarchy · Incentive · Management · Market economy · Microeconomics · Policy analysis · Political science · Public economics · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Engineering · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Public Administration
Green Investment Changes in China
Pathways to international cooperation on climate governance in China
Towards environmental deliberative democracy in China
Do urban carbon reduction practices under China’s institutional arrangement go beyond “low-hanging fruits”? Empirical evidence from Guangzhou
Impacts of low-carbon city pilot policy on ecological well-being performance across Chinese cities
Enforcing Law Through Authoritarian Environmentalism? State and Non-State Actors in China's Environmental Public Interest Litigation
Co-benefits, contradictions, and multi-level governance of low-carbon experimentation
Advocating Under Hierarchy
Does low-carbon city pilot policy improve energy efficiency
Climate policy and carbon leakage
Reciprocity or conflict? The impact of dual-policy of broadband China and low-carbon city on firms’ green technology innovation
Styles of decarbonization
The politics of curtailment
Tightening the grip
Missing conceptual links in the international environmental policy debate
Frame alignment and environmental advocacy
Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses
National Planning and Local Technology Zones
Perverse Incentive Structure and Policy Implementation Gap in China's Local Environmental Politics
Incentives, Information, and Organizational Form
Subjective Performance Measures in Optimal Incentive Contracts
Central–Local Relations
Understanding Blame Politics in China's Decentralized System of Environmental Governance
The Provision of Incentives in Firms
Why China's economic reforms differ
Political turnover and economic performance
The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Community-driven regulation
Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise
Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts
Authoritarian environmentalism and China's response to climate change
Command without control
Politics at the Boundary
What makes for good and bad neighbours? An emerging research agenda in the study of Chinese environmental politics
The coming of environmental authoritarianism
Firms' Choice of Method of Pay
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |