Negative Publicity and Bureaucratic Effort: How the Ministry of Environment Spurs Local Governments’ Efforts in Environmental Protection in China

• In Event: Governance and Outcomes Across Political Regimes

Brief Overview

By analyzing the case of environmental governance in China, I argue and show that a player with credible information but without the authority of a principal can use negative publicity to better align bureaucratic effort with its policy objectives

Author

• Xiaoshu Gui, Duke University