Under what conditions do Chinese local governments make compromises with local communities during environmental conflicts?

In this chapter, a second comparative study uses csQCA. One of the most promising advantages of QCA is that it allows researchers to make systematic and structured comparison, from which robust conclusions can be drawn about how the combinations of conditions lead to an outcome. In this book, csQCA is used to study how the combinations of four conditions, namely, scale of protest, form of protest, position of the central government, and stage of the project, can lead to various government strategies in environmental conflicts. Specifically, two outcomes are studied: the occurrence and the nonoccurrence of government compromises.