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Benjamin van Rooij
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Publications - 88
Citations - 1948
Benjamin van Rooij is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enforcement & Law enforcement. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 81 publications receiving 1582 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin van Rooij include Leiden University & University of California, Irvine.
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Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns
TL;DR: This paper analyzed cases of sub-optimum enforcement and the political campaigns that have been undertaken to deal with them and showed that the flexibility of political short-term policy instruments can offer incremental improvements to enhance the balance between the conflicting interests themselves and their relation with the legal system.
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The People vs. Pollution: understanding citizen action against pollution in China
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of state and intermediary institutions to aid citizens in understanding the seriousness of pollution and overcoming the obstacles they face is highlighted, and it is shown that often such aid is not available, and that state institutions when aligned with industrial interests restrict rather than support citizen action.
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Regulating land and pollution in China : lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement : theory and cases
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the legal change at Lake Dianchi and why people obey the law and the complexity of reality in the context of land and pollution in China.
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Fragile Convergence: Understanding Variation in the Enforcement of China's Industrial Pollution Law
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the explanation and meaning of these temporal and regional variation patterns, showing that enforcement varies when there is a convergence of governmental, social, and economic institutional forces.
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The authoritarian logic of regulatory pluralism: Understanding China's new environmental actors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a subjective definition of regulation in a context of pluralism, and find that regulatory pluralism need not coincide with a decentring of regulation, and highlight how entry onto the regulatory landscape affects the non-regulatory roles of new actors.