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100			_aLi, Jin and Chen,Shaowei _952404
245			_aMultilevel power structure and local compliance with government transparency mandates: Evidence from China's environmental transparency reform
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a90(1), Mar, 2024: p.82-99
520			_aDespite the ample literature on government transparency, our knowledge about how the vertical power structure of governments shapes local compliance with government transparency mandates is still limited. This study sets out to address this gap. Specifically, we investigate how the central government's environmental information disclosure (EID) signal and provincial governments’ conflicting signal of economic growth affect, independently and interactively, city governments’ compliance with central EID mandates in the center-province-city hierarchical structure in China. We argue that the central EID signal positively affects city compliance, while the provincial signal of economic growth reduces it. Moreover, the provincial signal of economic growth negatively moderates the impact of the central EID signal. Empirically, with a panel dataset for city-level governments from 2008 to 2018, we found robust evidence strongly supporting our theoretical hypotheses.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00208523231167081
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aENVIRONMENT
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