Exclusive Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study on Administrative Environmental Dispute Resolution in South-west China
Official statistics show that Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) resolve the vast majority of environmental disputes in current Chinese society. This paper studies how the EPB administrative dispute resolution mechanism functions in practice, by investigating dispute resolution in S County in South-West China. It finds that this mechanism has four distinct characteristics, which can be summarized using the term exclusive. This exclusive dispute resolution with a limited role for pollution victims is especially troublesome since the criteria for successful dispute resolution are markedly different between pollution victims and EPB officials. In conclusion the paper draws wider implications for dispute processing in China, arguing for a more inclusive and participatory resolution mechanism.
Environmental dispute Administrative resolution Exclusive Empirical South-west china
FENG Lu ZHANG Fan LIAO Wen-jie
School of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technolo Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2333 CC
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
311-316
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）