Regionalism's challenge to the pollution haven hypothesis: a study of Northeast Asia and ChinaFootnote

^*Previous versions of this paper were presented at the 2012 Western Political Science Association annual conference (Portland, OR) and the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association annual conference (Chicago, IL). The author is grateful for comments and suggestions from Stephen Haggard, Ronald Mitchell, and three anonymous reviewers. Matthew A. Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he focuses on information transfer problems in the context of environmental and science policies. His research looks particularly at the connections between publicly funded R&D and environmentally-related outcomes, how the public responds to the relevant science, and how the government incentivizes change in the public and private sectors.

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