Influencing Factors Analysis of Local Environmental Regulation Implementation Behaviors in China: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Test

Table 3

Scale design.

Latent variables	Observed variables
X1-environmental protection resources	X1a- urrent level of environmental protection human resource available X1b- current level of environmental protection material resource available X1c- current level of environmental protection financial resource available source: Previous theoretical analysis
X2-environmental supervision cost	X2a-the level of human resource required for environmental enforcement X2b- the level of material resource required for environmental enforcement X2c- the level of financial resource required for environmental enforcement source: [17]
X3-rewards and punishments degree of environmental protection behaviors on local governments by central government	X3a-environmental inspection frequency of central government on local governments X3b-weight coefficient of environmental indicators in the performance appraisal system X3c-the administrative penalty imposed by central government on local governments source: Previous theoretical analysis, [17]
X4-influencing coefficient of enterprises profits on the local government utility	X4a-influence degree of enterprises profits on fiscal revenue X4b-weight coefficient of economic indicators in the performance appraisal system source: Previous theoretical analysis
X5-environmental protection standards	X5a-difficulty in meeting pollution discharge standards X5b-level of pollution discharge fee rate X5c-level of fine rate on polluting enterprises for excessive discharge source: Previous theoretical analysis
Y-environmental regulation implementation behaviors	Ya-environmental inspection frequency Yb-strictness collection level of pollution discharge fee Yc-strictness reminder level of pollution discharge fee Yd-strictness punishment level for exceeding or violating pollution source: Previous theoretical analysis, [18, 19]