Collaborative Governance, Local Governments' Green Transformation and Air Quality Improvement

Abstract

Abstract: It is of great practical significance to construct a modern environmental governance system and accelerate the coordinated governance of local governments. Based on the panel data of 284 prefecture level-and-above cities in China from 2004 to 2019, this paper regards the air pollution joint-prevention and joint-control policy as a public policy experiment implemented by the collaborative governance model to investigate its impact and action mechanism on the improvement of air quality. The results show that the implementation of the collaborative governance model has significantly improved urban air quality, which is still valid after a series of robustness tests. The findings of a mechanism analysis show that the collaborative governance plays an institutional incentive role in promoting the green transformation of local governments, which is mainly reflected in promoting the transformation of local governments' industrial structures, energy structure adjustments and production technology innovations. In addition, this incentive effect is particularly obvious in economically developed areas and provincial capital cities with strong innovation ability. The results of an extensive analysis show that the establishment of a joint meeting system has a restrictive effect on the behavior of local governments, which is conducive to improving the efficiency of air pollution control, but the restrictive effect of formal cooperative action dominated by signing cooperation agreements is relatively weak. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of the collaborative governance and improve urban air quality, we should not only expand the implementation scope of the collaborative governance, but also strengthen the substantive collaborative action and reinforce the supporting guarantee mechanism, so as to further stimulate the institutional incentive efficiency and the behavior restraints.

Key words: collaborative governance, green transformation of local governments, air quality improvement, joint-defense and joint-control policy

CLC Number:

F062.6

ZHAO Yi-xin, MIAO Xiao-lin. Collaborative Governance, Local Governments' Green Transformation and Air Quality Improvement[J]. Contemporary Finance & Economics, 2022, 0(3): 40-52.

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