Do Authoritarian Governments Respond to Public Opinion on the Environment? Evidence from China

doi:10.3390/ijerph15020266

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	Do Authoritarian Governments Respond to Public Opinion on the Environment? Evidence from China
	Tang, Xiao 1,2; Chen, Weiwei 1; Wu, Tian3,4,5
	2018-02-01
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
ISSN	1660-4601
卷号	15 期号:2 页码:15
摘要	Given its serious impacts on the public's health, air pollution in China is a matter of strong public concern, particularly in reference to malodorous waste gas. Petition letters related to atmospheric pollution accounted for about 40% of the total petition cases. However, scholarly views differ on whether the Chinese government responds to public opinion on the environment and seeks to improve its environmental governance behavior. For this study, data from national surveys on the public's environmental satisfaction administered during the period 2011-2015 were analyzed to determine whether the public's dissatisfaction with the state of the environment in a given year resulted in increased investments by provincial governments in pollution governance during the following year. The study's findings revealed that governmental behavior in response to public opinion on the environment was selective within the field of environmental governance, with provincial governments being inclined to invest more in waste gas pollution control than in water pollution control. Furthermore, results from this study show that the Chinese government tends to put more efforts into the environmental field where it could more easily achieve short-term benefits.
关键词	environmental governance public opinion governmental responsiveness China
DOI	10.3390/ijerph15020266
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[71390331] ; Shandong Independent Innovation and Achievement Transformation Special Fund of China[2014ZZCX03302] ; Special fund for research cooperation of the faculty and research institute of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences[Y652025Y00]
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS记录号	WOS:000426721400091
出版者	MDPI
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/29915
专题	国家数学与交叉科学中心
通讯作者	Wu, Tian
作者单位	1.Tsinghua Univ, Sch Publ Policy & Management, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 2.Tsinghua Univ, Inst Contemporary China Studies, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Big Data Min & Knowledge Management, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tang, Xiao,Chen, Weiwei,Wu, Tian. Do Authoritarian Governments Respond to Public Opinion on the Environment? Evidence from China[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2018,15(2):15.
APA	Tang, Xiao,Chen, Weiwei,&Wu, Tian.(2018).Do Authoritarian Governments Respond to Public Opinion on the Environment? Evidence from China.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,15(2),15.
MLA	Tang, Xiao,et al."Do Authoritarian Governments Respond to Public Opinion on the Environment? Evidence from China".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 15.2(2018):15.