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In brief... How citizens help expose environmental wrongdoing

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  • Jonathan Colmer
  • Mary F. Evans
  • Jay Shimshack

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Does enabling citizens to complain about public services provide an effective way of improving government services, or should we be concerned about the accuracy and reliability of such reports? Jonathan Colmer, Mary Evans and Jay Shimshack find that complaints about environmental quality are linked to an increase in an investigation being carried out - and far more likely to uncover harm to the local environment than routine investigations.

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  • Jonathan Colmer & Mary F. Evans & Jay Shimshack, 2023. "In brief... How citizens help expose environmental wrongdoing," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 660, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:660
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    citizen complaints; environmental regulation; compliance; monitoring and enforcement; pollution;
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