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How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta

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  • Liming Suo
  • Xue Li
  • Shuai Cao

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Regional public affairs will become more complex when contradictions emerge between administrative boundaries and policy issues that require cross‐boundary collaboration. Breaking administrative boundaries has become a prerequisite for facilitating inter‐local government collaboration. This study categorizes governance boundaries into the administrative boundary and the ecology‐based policy boundary and then examines how these two governance boundaries and their interactive relationship contribute to the intergovernmental collaboration network in China's regional atmospheric governance (RAG). Using data on the atmospheric governance collaboration from 30 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2013 to 2018, we employ the MR‐QAP model to find that cities within the same administrative boundary are more likely to collaborate and cities within the ecology‐based policy boundary, compared with those beyond, are more likely to collaborate but with a lagging effect. Ecology‐based policy boundary has a positive but lagging moderating effect on the contribution of the administrative boundary to the formation of intergovernmental collaboration networks. Los asuntos públicos regionales se volverán más complejos cuando surjan contradicciones entre los límites administrativos y las cuestiones de política que requieren una colaboración transfronteriza. Romper los límites administrativos se ha convertido en un requisito previo para facilitar la colaboración entre gobiernos locales. Este estudio clasifica los límites de gobernanza en el límite administrativo y el límite de política basado en la ecología y luego examina cómo estos dos límites de gobernanza y su relación interactiva contribuyen a la red de colaboración intergubernamental en la gobernanza atmosférica regional (RAG) de China. Usando datos sobre la colaboración de gobernanza atmosférica de 30 ciudades en la región del delta del río Yangtze de 2013 a 2018, empleamos el modelo MR‐QAP para encontrar que las ciudades dentro del mismo límite administrativo tienen más probabilidades de colaborar y las ciudades dentro de la política basada en la ecología. frontera, en comparación con los que están más allá, es más probable que colaboren, pero con un efecto retardado. La frontera política basada en la ecología tiene un efecto moderador positivo pero rezagado en la contribución de la frontera administrativa a la formación de redes de colaboración intergubernamental. 当行政边界与需要跨边界协作的政策问题之间出现矛盾时,区域公共事务将变得更加复杂。打破行政边界已成为促进地方政府间合作的前提。本研究将治理边界分为行政边界和基于生态的政策边界,随后分析了这两种治理边界及其相互作用关系如何对中国区域大气治理(RAG)中的政府间协作网络作贡献。通过使用2013年至2018年长三角地区30个城市的大气治理协作数据,我们采用多元回归二次分配程序(MR‐QAP)模型发现,同一行政边界内的城市更有可能进行协作,并且在基于生态的政策边界内的城市与边界之外的城市相比,前者更有可能合作,但存在滞后效应。基于生态的政策边界对“行政边界对政府间协作网络形成所作的贡献”具有正向但滞后的调节作用。

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  • Liming Suo & Xue Li & Shuai Cao, 2023. "How governance boundaries affect regional collaboration on atmospheric governance—Evidence from China's Yangtze River Delta," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 40(4), pages 509-533, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:40:y:2023:i:4:p:509-533
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12541
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