Dear colleagues,
I write to share that my new book, The Political Regulation Wave: A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically Shape Air Quality in China <https://bit.ly/PoliticalRegulationWave>, is now out from Cambridge University Press and has open access. You may find it useful for your teaching and research on environmental politics, policy, & law. Publisher’s short summary: Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can affect bureaucratic regulation. Using empirical evidence, it examines and compares the control of different air pollutants in China-an autocracy-and, to a lesser extent, Mexico-a democracy. Making use of new data, approaches, and techniques across political science, environmental sciences, and engineering, Shen reveals that local leaders and politicians are incentivized to cater to the policy preferences of their superiors or constituents, respectively, giving rise to varying levels of regulatory stringency during the leaders' tenures. Shen demonstrates that when ambiguity dilutes regulatory effectiveness, having the right incentives and enhanced monitoring is insufficient for successful policy implementation. Vividly explaining key phenomena through anecdotes and personal interviews, this book identifies new causes of air pollution and proposes timely solutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Best wishes, Victoria ------------ *Shiran Victoria Shen* W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Virginia (on leave) Website: http://svshen.com | Twitter: @SVictoriaShen <https://twitter.com/svictoriashen> Recent publications: - [Book open access <https://bit.ly/3re3UIk>] *The Political Regulation Wave: A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically Shape Air Quality in China* (Cambridge University Press, March 2022) - [Report open access <https://energy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9971/f/us-china_roundtable_report.pdf> ] *Accelerating Decarbonization in China and the United States and Promoting Bilateral Collaboration on Climate Change*(Stanford University Precourt Institute for Energy, November 2021) - [Article open access <https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910587>] Integrating Political Science into Climate Modeling: An Example of Internalizing the Costs of Climate-Induced Violence in the Optimal Management of the Climate (*Sustainability*, September 2021) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/0c74703b-5603-445d-bfe4-a0278bf46465n%40googlegroups.com.
