The Search for Sustainable Legitimacy: Environmental Law and Bureaucracy in China

By A. Wang. 2013

215 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Siqi Zheng
2. Xinzheng Shi
3. Zhufeng Xu
4. Matthew E. Kahn
5. Steven Sexton
6. Alison L. Sexton
7. I. Barankay
8. Lina Trosvik

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Xinzheng Shi
2. Zhufeng Xu
3. Matthew E. Kahn
4. Siqi Zheng

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Siqi Zheng
2. Xinzheng Shi
3. Zhufeng Xu
4. Matthew E. Kahn
5. Edward L. Glaeser
6. Thomas K. J. McDermott
7. Sam Fankhauser
8. M. Ferreyra

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental regulation and firm exports: Evidence from the eleventh Five-Year Plan in China (2018, background): “More importantly, it was the first to explicitly link local government performance in environmental protection with the promotion of local leaders (Wang, 2013).”
• Incentivizing China's Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism (2014, background): “Twelve thousand Dalian residents organized a peaceful public protest inDalian's People's Square onAugust 14, demanding the factory to be immediately shut down and relocated, and that the details about the investigation into the factory should be made public.”
• A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China (2017, background): “At the political level, one motivation for the Chinese Communist Party to emphasize “green progress” is that the Party seeks to build legitimacy by signaling to both domestic constituents and international actors that it cares about the quality of life for everyone (Wang 2013).”
• Racing to the Bottom or to the Top? Decentralization, Revenue Pressures, and Governance Reform in China (2017, unknown): “In China’s fiscal system, expenditure is decentralized but poor implementation of fiscal transfers from the center has made local governments particularly vulnerable to budget shortfalls (Wu and Wang 2013).”
• Campaign‐Style Enforcement and Regulatory Compliance (2015, background): “In the case of the ECER campaign, local governments that were laggards even took last-minute actions of temporarily interrupting power generation to meet their momentary targets (Wang 2013).”