Institutional logic and feedback mechanisms of China's central inspection on ecologi-cal and environmental protection and the Chinese-style modernization of environ-mental governance:an explanatory framework based on the three-dimensional con-structs of po
The central inspection on ecological and environmental protection(CIEEP)is a significant institutional innovation in the de-velopment of ecological civilization and institutional reform personally planned,deployed,and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jin-ping.The CIEEP has progressively developed independent institutional logics after years of practice,development,and improvement.As new practice necessitates new theoretical justifications,this article proposes an interpretive framework combining textual analysis and fieldwork and based on the three-dimensional constructs of power,responsibility,and information.The results show that:① The CIEEP has developed institutional logics made up of three main mechanisms:top-down power regulation,bottom-up responsibility feed-back,and decentralized information aggregation.② The CIEEP has formed two mutually reinforcing and mutually constraining positive and negative feedback mechanisms in institutional logics.Positive feedback mechanisms take power control as their starting point.The central government's power adjusts the environmental governance structure of local governments,and through information aggregation,it enhances the legitimacy of the institution and the subject of power to achieve effective governance.Negative feedback mechanisms take responsibility feedback as their starting point.Local governments are subject to excessive political and administrative pressure to implement governance responsibilities,which can lead to ineffective governance phenomena such as'false rectification.'Through infor-mation aggregation,the ineffective governance phenomenon can weaken the legitimacy of the institution and the subject of power.Due to the existence of negative feedback mechanisms,positive feedback mechanisms cannot be separated from their influence and create a path dependence on power control.Moreover,because negative feedback mechanisms are again integrated into the operation of positive feedback mechanisms,they fail to influence positive feedback mechanisms to produce institutional effectiveness.③ From the perspec-tive of the relationship between the institutional path and value goals of a Chinese path to environmental governance modernization,the national environmental governance system is no longer premised on the temporal and spatial separation of effectiveness and legitimacy.Compared with the general path of'accumulating legitimacy with effectiveness,'the CIEEP with positive and negative feedback mecha-nisms creates a new path of'co-location'of legitimacy and effectiveness,which enhances the institution's identity and stability and en-riches the power restriction and supervision modes of a Chinese path to environmental governance modernization.The institutional log-ics of the CIEEP reflect the consistency between ecological and livelihood well-being and high-quality development and are more in line with the intrinsic needs of a Chinese path to environmental governance modernization in the new era.As far as the status and func-tion of the CIEEP are concerned,it has become an important institutional tool to realize a Chinese path to environmental governance modernization.
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