Effectiveness evaluation of China’s water resource tax reform pilot and path optimization from the perspective of policy field

Yang, Mingyi and Zhou, Muqi and Zhang, Conglin and Moudi, Mahdi (2024) Effectiveness evaluation of China’s water resource tax reform pilot and path optimization from the perspective of policy field. PLOS ONE, 19 (3). e0301031. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

The water resource tax reform played an important role in promoting sustainable development in China. Subsequent to the seven-year reform, the effectiveness evaluation of the policy in each pilot area and the exploration of the optimization path directly affected the promotion of water resource tax policy and the improvement of water use efficiency. Therefore, the theoretical framework of the water resource tax policy field was constructed to examine the mechanism of the three subsystems of policy scenario, policy orientation, and policy effect; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was then used to evaluate and quantitatively compare the policy implementation effect and policy path in each pilot area, with emphasis put on three policy orientations, i.e., the decision and decomposition effect of policy goals, the selection and im plementation effect of policy tools, and the policy supervision and security effect. As shown by the research results: ① the water resource tax reform had effectively improved the efficiency of water resource utilization in the pilot areas; ② three pilot models of water resource tax policy had been extracted, namely the policy goal and tool-driven model centering on a single dimension of the policy field, the implementation-supervision dual drive model emphasizing the supervision and security effect of the policy, and the three-dimensional policy orientation linkage model that focused on the synergistic effect of the policy field; ③ strong heterogeneity existed in water resource tax policy implementation paths and effects in each pilot area. Accordingly, regional heterogeneity could be considered in the process of reform to construct institutionalized, precise, and differentiated reform implementation methods from the perspective of the policy field.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Eurolib Press > Biological Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2024 10:42
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2024 10:42
URI: http://info.submit4journal.com/id/eprint/3543

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