This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...

Recent literature on environmental governance in China frequently ascribes blame for China's environmental problems to subnational governments' lax environmental enforcement. Such research implicitly assumes that more central control would lead to better results but, as yet, the role of the...

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...