Empirical Analysis of Political Participation, Government Response and Environmental Governance Satisfaction Based on CGSS2015 Data

Abstract

Since the reform and opening up, China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, and many significant achievements have been made in just over forty years. However, rapid economic growth has also brought about serious resource consumption and environmental pollution, especially represented by water and air pollution. At present, the overall strategy of sustainable development and ecological civilisation requires environmental governance to be a public task that must be addressed, and ecological governance is an integral part of the modernisation of governance systems and capabilities. The report of the 19th National Congress points out that "the strictest ecological and environmental protection system in history will be built, and more attention will be paid to guiding the public to play an effective role in environmental governance. Establish an environmental governance system in which the government is the leader, enterprises are the main body, and social organisations and the public participate." It is clear from this that environmental governance is a systematic project that needs to be shared between the government and the public. This paper investigates the relationship between government satisfaction with environmental governance, government responsiveness and citizens' political participation to explore the impact of government responsiveness and political participation on satisfaction with environmental governance, as well as the impact of government responsiveness on citizens' participation in environmental governance.