Fragmented Authoritarianism and State Capacity in China's Environmental Governance

• In Event: Climate Change Changes Everything: Food and Livelihood

Brief Overview

Do routinized central environmental inspections (CEI) turn campaign compliance into durable capacity under fragmented authoritarianism? I build a city Fragmentation Index and use staggered DID to test heterogeneous medium-run effects, 2013–2022.

Author

• Qingwen Deng, Duke University