This book investigates pesticide compliance in China in order to provide a more comprehensive
understanding of compliance and offers some feasible and adaptable suggestions for enhancing
the effectiveness of this compliance. It discusses the weak implementation of Chinese laws and
rules and emphasizes the necessity and importance of a compliance perspective in China that
focuses on why laws are obeyed or broken. It examines how vegetable farmers' perceptions of
amoral calculation affect their pesticide compliance behavior and analyzes how the legitimacy
of law is related to compliance to better explain how all the variables interact to shape
compliance. It discusses both qualitative and quantitative methods and uses a large-N
qualitative approach which allows for systematic analysis and in-depth exploration. This book
will help readers to understand compliance in developing China by adopting and developing
compliance theories which are broadly developed in the West.
