Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000730
Xiao Zhu, Taotao Qiu, Dongshu Liu
Decentralization is believed to ensure better environmental governance. However, recent studies have shown that some governments recentralize local enforcement to increase the effectiveness of policy implementation. Under what conditions is recentralization the better option for environmental enforcement? This study attempts to differentiate two possible mechanisms through which recentralization can deliver better environmental outcomes: curbing elite capture and enhancing local resources. In the context of recentralization reform and with a unique dataset of local investigations into China's environmental enforcement, we demonstrate that although decentralization has been successful from many perspectives, recentralizing local environmental enforcement can produce better outcomes for pollution reduction in China, by curbing local protectionism rather than enhancing local resources. Further qualitative analysis reveals why recentralization cannot necessarily enhance local resources and capacity, even though it is designed to do so.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000742
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Pub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000778
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Pub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000596
Patricia M. Thornton
{"title":"Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics Thomas Heberer. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 236 pp. £130.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032404363","authors":"Patricia M. Thornton","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"3 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141099055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000560
Adam Cathcart
{"title":"The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 Zach Fredman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 334 pp. $34.95 (pbk). ISBN 9781469669588","authors":"Adam Cathcart","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"3 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141099453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000511
François Gipouloux
{"title":"Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China Shellen Xiao Wu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 309 pp. US$32.00 (pbk). ISBN 9781503636842","authors":"François Gipouloux","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"14 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000559
J. Nip
{"title":"Digital Transnationalism: Chinese-Language Media in Australia Wanning Sun and Haiqing Yu. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. xii + 279 pp. €135.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789004525337","authors":"J. Nip","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000559","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"39 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141122167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000651
Iza Ding
{"title":"Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China Martin K. Dimitrov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 496 pp. $34.95 (pbk). ISBN 9780197672938","authors":"Iza Ding","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000651","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"8 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000699
Carlos Rojas
{"title":"Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell Xuelei Huang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 297 pp. £30.00; $39.99 (hbk). ISBN 9781009207041","authors":"Carlos Rojas","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000699","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"17 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000729
Jing Vivian Zhan
{"title":"Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations Ceren Ergenc and David S.G. Goodman. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. 484 pp. £210.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781800883239","authors":"Jing Vivian Zhan","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"76 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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