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This research examines the role of interest intermediaries in helping to promote environmental regulatory compliance with a particular focus on their activities to facilitate the sharing of regulatory information. Although it is widely accepted that the provision of regulatory information to regulatees is crucial to enhancing compliance, the ability of regulatees to take advantage of the information provided is often limited. The research reported here addresses the gap between mere provision and actual utilization of regulatory information. With a case study of environmental compliance among Korean-American dry cleaners in Massachusetts, the research identifies the mechanism through which the interest intermediary can turn the extensive, heterogeneous network of information into systematic action-oriented capacity with a view to assisting compliance. Adapted from the source document.

This article attempts to fill the gaps in traditional compliance theories and argues that the actor's identity formulated by socio-political contexts influences the propensity to move toward or away from compliance. Although regulated entities are sometimes instrumentally rational or norms oriented, they also base their behavioral choices on situated judgments in ways that are more varied and changing than existing compliance theories have suggested. The comparative case studies presented here focus on how the socio-political relations of actors are manifested in identities of self and others in interaction and, in turn, translate into compliance choice making.

This comparative case study explores why two cities similar in socio-economic factors diverge in their pathways to environmental improvement. Our research looks at the changing local economies and environmental pollution problems facing Kitakyushu in Japan and Pohang in South Korea. Both cities drove their nations' rapid economic growth as the main heavy industry hubs but have performed radically differently vis-à-vis public demands for environmental improvement despite sharing much in common. Employing the advocacy coalition framework as a main analytical tool, we examine the unfolding of policy efforts to turn a manufacturing-oriented industrial city into a "greener" city responding to environmental objectives and the respective outcomes. The research reveals that variations in regulatory decentralization, external events and coalition opportunity structures largely explain the observed discrepancy in green transition between the two settings. Our findings contribute to expanding scarce case study literature illustrating the mechanisms that can underpin environmental improvements in cities that have served as the location of heavy industries and offer suggestions for advancing them.

AbstractThis research examines conditions under which environmental regulatory disclosure is more versus less likely to work, with focus on the case of thePhilippines. Two major findings arise out of a case study. First, we observe a mismatch between the nature of information and the main addressees of the disclosed information, which led the operation of the subject disclosure program to deviate from its targets. Second, this institutional deficiency has to do with the organizational culture and routine practice of the implementing agency. The second finding challenges a major justification of information‐based environmental regulation (IBER) administered in weak states and underscores the role that administrative capacity plays in making novel regulations come into effect. Contrary to the popular belief thatIBERcreates non‐governmental forces that offset a limited statehood, it may be less likely to work where state administrative capacity is weak.