A Configurational Exploration of How Institutional Pressures Affect Local Governments'Environmental Governance Performance——A Longtitudinal QCA on Prefecture-Level Cities
Institution matters for the economic and environmental development.Adopted from organizational institutionalism theory,this paper constructs an analytical framework to explore the configurational paths of multiple institutional pressures affecting environmental governance performance(EGP)and the dynamic processes.This study uses a dynamic qualitative comparative analysis(QCA)method with the 2013-2020 panel data of prefecture-level cities in China so to incorporate time effect on the performance.The findings include:firstly,single institutional pressure is not a necessary condition for high EGP during any studied period;secondly,we find five configurations of institutional pressures to achieve high EGP,which could be categorized into three models:coercive pressure leading type(M1),mimetic and normative pressure driving type(M2),and coercive,mimetic and normative pressure linkage type(M3);finally,the between and within consistency analysis shows that the configuration of the five institutional pressures has maintained strong stability over the studied period,which demonstrates the path-dependent characteristics of local environmental governance models.However,the driving mechanism of EGP gradually transformed from M1 to M3,showing that the synergistic effect of multiple institutional pressures play more and more roles in local environmental governance.
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