Streamlining Local Behaviour Through Communication, Incentives and Control: A Case Study of Local Environmental Policies in China

This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas Heberer, Anja Senz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/455