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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Research on the Impact of Environmental
Regulation and Environmental
Accountability on Public Satisfaction
with Environmental Governance
1
School of Public Administration , Shandong Technology And Business University, Yantai 264000, China
2
School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710000, China
3
School of Public Administration, Fujian Jiangxia University, Fuzhou 350000, China
Submission date: 2024-02-20
Final revision date: 2024-03-15
Acceptance date: 2024-04-13
Online publication date: 2024-06-20
Publication date: 2025-01-09
Corresponding author
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(2):1255-1267
KEYWORDS
environmental regulationenvironmental accountabilitypublic satisfaction with environmental governance
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Based on the data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2015 and the statistical yearbooks
of 89 corresponding prefectures, this paper constructs an ordered probit model and a mediation effect
model to explore the logic of how environmental regulation and environmental accountability jointly
influence public satisfaction with environmental governance. The results indicate that both the intensity
of environmental regulation and the cognition of environmental accountability significantly promote
public satisfaction with environmental governance. Notably, public environmental accountability
cognition plays a partial mediating role in the influence of environmental regulation on environmental
governance satisfaction. Further analysis reveals that this mediating effect is unique to urban groups,
with notable differences observed between urban and rural areas. Consequently, this paper suggests
policy implications, such as optimizing and innovating the environmental accountability system while
actively guiding the public to engage in orderly environmental governance supervision.
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