In brief... How citizens help expose environmental wrongdoing

Jonathan Colmer (), Mary Evans and Jay Shimshack

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Abstract: Does enabling citizens to complain about public services provide an effective way of improving government services, or should we be concerned about the accuracy and reliability of such reports? Jonathan Colmer, Mary Evans and Jay Shimshack find that complaints about environmental quality are linked to an increase in an investigation being carried out - and far more likely to uncover harm to the local environment than routine investigations.

Keywords: citizen complaints; environmental regulation; compliance; monitoring and enforcement; pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-20
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