ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a second single case study is reported: the Dalian PX case. This case occurred in Dalian, a traditional industrial base in China. Many key industrial plants have been constructed and operate there. Dalian Municipality had a strong economic reliance on local industrial plants because of the plants’ enormous contributions to tax revenue. Consequently, Dalian Municipality had a strong incentive to align with local industries rather than take the interests of local citizens seriously. In this case, five government strategies were applied by Dalian Municipality: go-alone, suppression, tension reduction, giving in, and again tension reduction. Again, process tracing is used to explain these.
