公众参与、政企合谋与环境污染——互联网的调节作用

Public Participation,Collusion Between Government and Enterprises,and Environmental Pollution:The Moderating Effect of the Internet

政企合谋作为弱化环境规制的一个重要因素,制约中国环境质量改善。社会公众作为环境治理重要主体之一,其环境参与行为能否约束政企合谋对环境的不利影响,成为实现环境质量改善的关键。考虑当前环境治理过程中互联网的重要作用,从理论和实证两个层面研究在互联网调节作用下,公众环境参与、政企合谋与环境污染之间的关系。研究结果表明:政企合谋行为会加大企业对环境的污染行为;公众环境参与难以依靠自身力量约束政企合谋行为对环境的不利影响;在互联网的调节作用下,公众环境参与不仅能够约束企业的污染行为,而且能够对政企合谋行为形成监督,弱化政企合谋行为对环境的不利影响。互联网作为当前社会发展的一个主要支撑,有助于发挥公众环境参与有效性,实现有效的舆论监督。

Government-enterprise collusion is an important factor in weakening environmental regulations,which restricts China s environmental quality improvement.The public is one of the important subjects of environmental governance.Whether their participation in the environment can restrain the negative impact of the collusion between government and enterprises on the environment has become the key to achieving environmental quality improvement.Considering the important role of the Internet in the current environmental governance process,this paper studies the relationship between public environmental participation,government-enterprise collusion and environmental pollution under the regulatory role of the Internet from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.The results show that the collusion between government and enterprises will increase environmental pollution of enterprises.It is difficult for public environmental participation to restrain the adverse effects of the collusion between government and enterprises on the environment by relying on its own strength.Under the influence of the Internet,public environmental participation can not only directly restrain the pollution behavior of enterprises,but also supervise the collusion between government and enterprises and thus weaken the negative impact of the collusion between government and enterprises on the environment.The Internet,as a major support for the current social development,is conducive to giving play to the effectiveness of public environmental participation and achieving effective public opinion supervision.