By comparing three cases of environmental activism in China, our paper answers the
following three questions about public participation in environment protection in China:(1) …

The concept of open government, having been promoted widely in the past 5 years, has
promised a broader notion than e-government, as supposed to fundamentally transform …

We examined the policy impact on the environmental and economic performance of small
and medium enterprises (SMEs), which is understudied in the literature. Using the Chinese …

China's decentralization has been praised for promoting inter-jurisdictional competition that
incentivizes local officials to promote economic development. The downside of …

China has established three rounds of low-carbon pilot city initiatives. However, a gap exists
between policy making and successful implementation, and the effects on greenhouse gas …

A growing range of public, private and civic organisations, from Unicef through Nesta to
NHS, now run units known as “innovation labs”. The hopeful assumption they share is that …

Studies on the Internet in China mainly focus on issues at the macro level, like state control,
democracy or human rights. Few studies have examined the role of the Internet in collective …

Abstract Using The Measures of National Key Monitoring Enterprises for Self-monitoring and
Information Disclosure (Trial) issued in 2014 as a quasi-natural experiment, this study has …

Abstract Information disclosure in environmental governance, or informational governance
conceptualized by Arthur Mol, has been increasingly utilized as a policy instrument to …

Does increasing government transparency in an authoritarian regime, absent electoral forms
of accountability, change outcomes? The case of China, which has adopted a number of …