TY - JOUR
T1 - How Have Political Incentives for Local Officials Reduced the Environmental Pollution of Resource-depleted Cities?
AU - Zhang, Huiming
AU - Xiong, Lifang
AU - Qiu, Yueming
AU - Zhou, Dequn
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (no. 13CGL094), Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation (Grant BK20151527), Jiangsu Qinglan Project, Six Talents Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (Grant 2015-XNY-008), Outstanding Team Building Project for Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Science of Universities (Grant 2015ZSTD006), Key Projects for the Universities’ Philosophy and Social Sciences in Jiangsu Province (Grant 2016ZDIXM019).
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Chinese resource-exhausted cities face more severe environmental pollution problems than other cities. In addressing these problems, the way local officials, usually senior party and government leaders, operate, is very important, in that their focus on political achievements may complicate how they manage environmental pollution in these cities. Based on this, we analyze the relationship between political incentives and environmental pollution by applying the 2004-2014 panel data from 37 resource-exhausted cities. The findings reveal that: (1) Local openness levels, degree of industrial upgrading and local investment in fixed assets are not the key variables in environmental pollution control. (2) The extent to which officials vie for political achievement affects environmental pollution in resource-exhausted cities. It depends on whether the officials are municipal party secretaries or mayors; the former play a greater dynamic role in environmental pollution and have a stronger robustness than the latter. The conclusion verifies that the selection of municipal party secretaries, rather than mayors, is particularly important in coming to terms with local environmental pollution.
AB - Chinese resource-exhausted cities face more severe environmental pollution problems than other cities. In addressing these problems, the way local officials, usually senior party and government leaders, operate, is very important, in that their focus on political achievements may complicate how they manage environmental pollution in these cities. Based on this, we analyze the relationship between political incentives and environmental pollution by applying the 2004-2014 panel data from 37 resource-exhausted cities. The findings reveal that: (1) Local openness levels, degree of industrial upgrading and local investment in fixed assets are not the key variables in environmental pollution control. (2) The extent to which officials vie for political achievement affects environmental pollution in resource-exhausted cities. It depends on whether the officials are municipal party secretaries or mayors; the former play a greater dynamic role in environmental pollution and have a stronger robustness than the latter. The conclusion verifies that the selection of municipal party secretaries, rather than mayors, is particularly important in coming to terms with local environmental pollution.
KW - environmental pollution
KW - mayors
KW - municipal party secretaries
KW - political incentives
KW - resource-exhausted cities
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U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.776
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.776
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85040815639
SN - 1876-6102
VL - 143
SP - 873
EP - 879
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
T2 - 1st Joint Conference on World Engineers Summit - Applied Energy Symposium and Forum: Low Carbon Cities and Urban Energy, WES-CUE 2017
Y2 - 19 July 2017 through 21 July 2017
ER -