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Signal and political accountability: environmental petitions in China
Authors:Jiankun Lu  Pi-Han Tsai
Institution:1.School of Public Finance and Taxation,Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics,Hangzhou,China;2.College of Economics,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,China
Abstract:Vertical accountability in China has long been considered as essentially indirect or informal. This paper provides evidence that direct local accountability may exist to a greater or lesser degree in China under current political institutions. By using provincial environmental petition data, this paper finds that the number of environmental petitions is positively associated with provincial governments’ investments in pollution mitigation. The increased petitions serve as a signal to provincial leaders of the possibility of potential social instability. However, since “local” provincial party secretaries are better informed, the signaling effect of the petitions is lessened in these cases.
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