The effect of environmental centralization: An assessment of China's environmental vertical management reform below provincial level

M Tang, L Liu - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2025 - Elsevier
To strengthen the top-down supervision over local environmental management, China has
gradually initiated environmental vertical management reform (EVMR) below provincial level …

Management of civil services and the supply of civil servants

W Yang, S Zhao - Public Administration, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study proposes an organization–person framework and examines whether
management of public officials shapes capable young elites' preferences of government …

Achieving economic and environmental sustainability through local low-carbon governance: evidence from panel data of Chinese cities

Z Ji, B Liu - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
The integration of economic growth and environmental sustainability represents a critical
component in local governments' implementation of Sustainable Development Goals …

Superior endorsement and bureaucratic compliance in China's environmental enforcement

J Du, X Zhu - Global Public Policy and Governance, 2024 - Springer
The influence of politics in policy implementation is a widespread global phenomenon, but
bureaucratic responses to it remain understudied. This study examines how superior …

Credible signaling to promote local compliance: Evidence from China's multiwave inspection of environmental protection

X Zhu, Y Wang - Public Administration - Wiley Online Library
Different from common knowledge on central–local information asymmetry, this study
focuses on reverse information asymmetry, in which local governments may lack information …