GOVERNING ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN CHINA: UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS DO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS COMPROMISE?
通过分析10个中国环境冲突案例，使用清晰集定性比较分析方法，研究哪些条件组合会导致地方政府改变决策，从而理解环境冲突治理的机制。
In recent years, governing environmental conflicts concerning the planning, construction, and operation of urban facilities has increasingly become a challenge for Chinese local governments. Chinese governments seek adequate responses to deal with these conflicts, for instance by ignoring criticism and sticking to initial decisions, by suppressing protests, or by compromising. In this article, by analysing 10 cases of conflict in China using crisp‐set qualitative comparative analysis ( csQCA ), we aim to investigate which combinations of diverse conditions lead to changes in local governments' decisions. Four contextualized paths to explain both the presence and the absence of these changes are identified. These findings increase our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the governance of environmental conflicts in China and may inform Chinese governments and non‐state actors who are seeking ways to deal adequately with them.