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Stefan Brehm

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A fragmented environmental state? Analysing spatial compliance patterns for the case of transparency legislation in China

Author

  • Stefan Brehm
  • Jesper Svensson

Summary, in English

Do Chinese cities compete for investments with lax environmental law enforcement? The here presented study suggests that this is true for some municipalities but not all of them. Based on data for 126 key environmental protection cities and regional economic hubs between 2010 and 2012 we show that economic decentralization and political centralization both shape spatial patterns of compliance with environmental transparency legislation. Our results give reason to suppose that the Chinese economy moved beyond homogenous preferences for low-cost regulatory arrangements. The emerging jurisdictional interaction is in line with a Tiebout sorting process, where cities compete with diverse factor packages to attract an optimal amount of investments.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography
  • Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

Publishing year

2017-11-06

Language

English

Pages

471-493

Publication/Series

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science

Volume

1

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • China
  • Environmental governance
  • Spatial Durbin
  • Law implementation
  • Asian studies

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2509-7946