Officials' Turnover, Promotion Incentives and Environmental Quality-Evidence from Provincial Government Leaders in China

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10.2991/sschd-18.2019.80How to use a DOI?

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Officials' Turnover, Exchange of Officials, Incentives of Promotion, Environmental Quality

Abstract

Environmental problems and causes of China have always been a hot topic in international academic circles. Taking 31 provinces in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2006 to 2015 as samples, this paper selects the unique perspective of local government officials' replacement (provincial and municipal party secretary replacement) to make an empirical of the impact of officials' turnover on the environmental quality. We use the software of STATA to empirically tested four hypotheses, the results show that the officials' turnover and exchange of officials has a significant negative impact on regional environmental quality, Officials transferred from the central government have a significant negative impact on local environmental quality, the length of tenure tends to have negative impacts on environmental quality. The officials' turnover in eastern regions does not have a significant impact on environmental quality and environmental incentives do not play an important role in comparison with economic incentives.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ming ZHOU
AU  - Li-Ying DENG
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Officials' Turnover, Promotion Incentives and Environmental Quality-Evidence from Provincial Government Leaders in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 438
EP  - 447
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-18.2019.80
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-18.2019.80
ID  - ZHOU2019/01
ER  -