Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton

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Sarah Eaton erforscht, wie politische Macht und Interessenskonflikte die Gestaltung globaler technischer Standards beeinflussen, mit besonderem Fokus auf China. Sie analysiert, wie staatliche Institutionen, lokale Verwaltungen und Unternehmen in komplexen Governance-Systemen zusammenwirken – etwa bei Umweltschutz, Standardisierung oder Wirtschaftsreformen. Ihre Expertise hilft Unternehmen zu verstehen, wie politische Strukturen und zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen technologische und regulatorische Prozesse prägen.

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Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton

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Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

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Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

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Transregionale Chinastudien

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• BCCN: Establishing a digital platform for China knowledge exchange - fostering teaching and research collaborations

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  Förderer: Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Zeitraum: 07/2022 - 06/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton

• De:link//Re:link: Lokale Perspektiven auf transregionale Ver- und Entkopplungsprozesse

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  Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 04/2021 - 06/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs

• Interjurisdiktionaler Wettbewerb und Kooperation in China: Eine Analyse von Ursachen und politischen Maßnahmen auf der Kreisebene

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 02/2020 - 01/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton

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• Authoritarian Environmentalism Undermined? Local Leaders’ Time Horizons and Environmental Policy Implementation in China

  2014

  The China Quarterly · 373 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract China's national leaders see restructuring and diversification away from resource-based, energy intensive industries as central goals in the coming years. On the basis of extensive fieldwork in China between 2010 and 2012, we suggest that the high turnover of leading cadres at the local level may hinder state-led greening growth initiatives. Frequent cadre turnover is intended primarily to keep local Party secretaries and mayors on the move in order to promote the implementation of central directives. While rotation does seem to aid implementation by reducing coordination problems, there are also significant downsides to local leaders changing office every three to four years. Officials with short time horizons are likely to choose the path of least resistance in selecting quick, low-quality approaches to the implementation of environmental policies. We conclude that the perverse effects of local officials’ short time horizons give reason to doubt the more optimistic claims about the advantages of China's model of environmental authoritarianism.

• Central Protectionism in China: The “Central SOE Problem” in Environmental Governance

  2017

  The China Quarterly · 145 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This article examines the so-called “central State Owned Enterprise (SOE) problem” in China's environmental governance system, namely central SOEs' defiance of environmental regulation. We present evidence showing that, in the last decade, central SOEs have been the source of a large number of serious pollution incidents and have often failed to comply with environmental guidelines and regulations. Central SOEs in the electricity generation and oil and gas industries are particularly culpable, with six firms alone accounting for 62 per cent of all 2,370 reported violations (2004–2016). We argue that a combination of “central protectionism” of state-owned national champions and insufficient regulatory capacity in the environmental bureaucracy have provided state firms under central management with both incentives and opportunities to shirk on environmental regulations. Yet, while the institutions of central protectionism are deeply rooted, countervailing forces within the complex Chinese state are also gaining momentum. In spite of the considerable regulatory challenges, officials in the environment bureaucracy display increasing resolve and ingenuity in trying to strengthen their enforcement capacity.

• The Advance of the State in Contemporary China: State-Market Relations in the Reform Era

  2015

  68 Zitationen · DOI

  Since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, central-level, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China have extended their reach into the Chinese economy. Some have interpreted this development as a turning point in Chinese economic development; a decision for state capitalism and a stand against slow but steady marketization. In The Advance of the State in Contemporary China, Sarah Eaton suggests that the shift is a much slower-moving process and that this particular aspect of state sector reform can be seen to predate the financial crisis. She argues that the 'advance of the State' has in fact developed incrementally from an eclectic set of ideas regarding the political and economic significance of large and profitable state-controlled enterprise groups. Drawing from case studies of China's telecommunication services and airline reforms, this fascinating new study offers illuminating insight into China's much-vaunted, but poorly understood, brand of state capitalism

• Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

  Lokale Perspektiven auf transregionale Ver- und Entkopplungsprozesse am Beispiel von Chinas Belt-and-Road-Initiative (De:Link//Re:Link II)

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• Cornell University

  The emergence of the environmental state under authoritarianism: new models of socio-environmental bargaining and fringe area governance in Asia (China, Vietnam and beyond)

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• Freie Universität Berlin

  BCCN: Establishing a digital platform for China knowledge exchange - fostering teaching and research collaborations

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