The more expertise the better? Examining the impact of policy venue specialization on environmental policy compliance.
We study the impact of policy venue specialization, the deliberate creation of domain-specific, expertise-intensive -institutions, on environmental policy compliance. Leveraging a recent institutional reform in China, where municipal-level environmental courts were introduced to strengthen China's e...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 188 - 205 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2026
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