Good Governance for Environmental Protection in China: Instrumentation, Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences
Good Governance for Environmental Protection in China: Instrumentation, Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences
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DOI：
10.1080/00472336.2013.870828
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发表时间：
2014-04-03
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Johnson, Thomas
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作者：
Johnson, Thomas
在过去的十年里，中国领导的环保部通过建立正式的公众参与渠道和促进环境透明度，推行了向公众延伸治理的战略。“良好治理”的这些特征本身并不代表规范的目的，而是被政治行政部门利用，以争取公众对执行环境法规的支持，并通过法律机制引导异议去政治化。本文研究了环境非政府组织和“不在我的后院”运动如何战略性地与环境保护部及其良好治理言论互动，以促进他们自己的目标。与此同时，它认为，随着中国公民越来越多地主张他们的参与性和透明性“权利”，意想不到的后果已经出现。通过将工具性善政政策用于自己的利益，公民按照自己的条件定义了参与和透明度等概念。
During the past decade, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has pursued a strategy of "extending governance" to the public by creating formal public participation channels and promoting environmental transparency. Rather than representing a normative end in their own right, these features of "good governance" are being used instrumentally by the political executive to enlist public support in enforcing environmental regulations, and to depoliticise dissent by channelling it through legal mechanisms. This paper examines how environmental non-governmental organisations and "not-in-my-backyard" movements strategically interact with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and its good governance rhetoric to promote their own objectives. At the same time, it argues that unintended consequences have emerged as Chinese citizens increasingly assert their participatory and transparency "rights." By appropriating instrumental good governance policies to their own advantage, citizens define concepts such as participation and transparency on their own terms.