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Yee, Wai-Hang.

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China's environmental reform: Ecological modernization, regulatory compliance, and institutional change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	China's environmental reform: Ecological modernization, regulatory compliance, and institutional change./
Author:	Yee, Wai-Hang.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2012,
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-02A(E).
Subject:	Public administration. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3542337
ISBN:	9781267700018

China's environmental reform: Ecological modernization, regulatory compliance, and institutional change.
Yee, Wai-Hang.

China's environmental reform: Ecological modernization, regulatory compliance, and institutional change. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2012 - 221 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2012.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

China's rapid economic growth in the past three decades has created devastating consequences for its environment. Recently, however, there have been many signs of positive change. This dissertation examines the recent environmental reform in China by analyzing data collected from senior executives of Hong Kong-owned firms with manufacturing operations in the Pearl River Delta region, Guangdong. It adopts three theoretical perspectives for understanding three distinct but interrelated aspects of the reform.

ISBN: 9781267700018Subjects--Topical Terms:

531287
Public administration.

China's environmental reform: Ecological modernization, regulatory compliance, and institutional change.
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520 $a The first study of the dissertation examines, through an ecological modernization perspective, the progress and effectiveness of various reform measures in fostering behavioral changes among firms. It finds that economic rationality is no longer the only organizing principle in the Chinese economy. Government, market, and to a lesser extent civil society actors are exerting stronger environmental pressures on business enterprises, which in some circumstances has led these enterprises to adopt more progressive environmental behaviors.
520 $a The second study examines from a regulatory compliance perspective what motivates firms' compliance behaviors with governmental regulatory demands. It proposes an analytical framework for systematically mapping firms' compliance motivations in China's regulatory situation, in which the rule of law cannot be assumed. The study found that firms' environmental behaviors were driven less by their intentions to better comply with environmental laws and regulations than by their motivations to avoid the punishment they may receive for violating the regulator's demands, and, notably, to prevent the potential arbitrary interference from the regulator's use of his enforcement power. Their environmental behaviors also varied negatively with the number of challenges they found in trying to understand the de facto regulation that represents the regulator's self-restraint in using his enforcement power. These findings suggest that environmental laws and regulations in China cannot yet be relied upon as a useful objective reference for regulatees' compliance decisions. This poses significant challenges for regulatees in judging whether the regulator is regulating arbitrarily for his personal interests, as well as on local regulators in demonstrating their commitments to the regulatory goals.
520 $a The third study analyzed the recent surge of government-sponsored voluntary environmental programs from a broader perspective of institutional change. Three practical challenges were identified in the local governments' efforts to transform centrally devised environmental plans and rules into actual local policy practices: namely, the regulatees' concerns about the potential arbitrary enforcement of the regulator, the regulatees' concerns about the collective inaction problem among them, and the regulator's concern about standard setting for achieving effective regulatory governance. The study finds that voluntary programs help local officials identify among the policy population a set of exemplars whose performances represent the de facto regulations guiding the regulatory enforcement of local regulators. This demonstrates the plausibility of the administratively set standards, as well as assuring individual regulatees that there are others in the regulated population who are also working toward the regulatory goal. Most importantly, these programs help local officials demonstrate their commitment to not engaging in arbitrary enforcement. Overall, these programs complement the more open, legalistic regulatory approach that is under construction.
520 $a Analyzing the environmental reform from a firm's perspective, this dissertation finds that China has been steering a unique path to ecological modernization. Given the current stage of economic development of China, as well as its existing sociopolitical institutional context, the Chinese government shall continue to adopt a formalized and impartial regulatory approach in improving its environmental governance, which helps foster a stable and more open business environment, and thus a more constructive reciprocal relationship between the government and the firms.
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