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Clean Air at What Cost?: The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

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Language
English
Publishers
Cambridge University Press; New edition (25 Jan. 2024)
Weight
0.35 KG
Publication Date
11/01/2024
ISBN-10
1009152661
Pages
256 pages
ISBN-13
9781009152662
Dimensions
15.19 x 1.47 x 22.91 cm
SKU
9781009152662
Author Name
Denise Sienli van der Kamp (Author)
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China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry.

Much of this was achieved through top-down, 'blunt force' solutions, such as forcibly shuttering or destroying polluting factories. This book argues that China's blunt force regulation is actually a sign of weak state capacity and ineffective bureaucratic control.

Integrating case studies with quantitative evidence, it shows how widespread industry shutdowns are used, not to scare polluters into respecting pollution standards, but to scare bureaucrats into respecting central orders. These measures have improved air quality in almost all Chinese cities, but at immense social and economic cost.

This book delves into the negotiations, trade-offs, and day-to-day battles of local pollution enforcement to explain why governments employ such costly measures, and what this reveals about a state's powers to govern society. .

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