Four modes of neighborhood governance: the view from Nanjing, China
Four modes of neighborhood governance: the view from Nanjing, China
In a context of global moves towards decentralization and neighbourhood governance, this article focuses on neighbourhood governance in Nanjing, China. We draw on interviews and observations in 32 neighbourhoods to examine how neighbourhood governance plays out in different neighbourhoods. We identify and describe four modes of governance—collective consumption, service privatization, civic provision and state-sponsored—to argue that neighbourhood governance develops on the ground in diverse and complex ways, necessitating scholars to be cautious when seeking to generalize about it at the scale of the city, let alone that of the nation-state or the globe. We argue that relationships between actors are important units of analysis when considering how effective governance is achieved in different neighbourhoods; diversity and complexity in neighbourhood governance partly reflect the role of the state in these relationships. In turn the role of the state partly reflects processes of policy evolution in particular neighbourhoods.
China, decentralization, neighbourhood governance, the state
535-554
Wang, Ying
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Clarke, Nicholas
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May 2021
Wang, Ying
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Clarke, Nicholas
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Wang, Ying and Clarke, Nicholas
(2021)
Four modes of neighborhood governance: the view from Nanjing, China.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12983).
Abstract
In a context of global moves towards decentralization and neighbourhood governance, this article focuses on neighbourhood governance in Nanjing, China. We draw on interviews and observations in 32 neighbourhoods to examine how neighbourhood governance plays out in different neighbourhoods. We identify and describe four modes of governance—collective consumption, service privatization, civic provision and state-sponsored—to argue that neighbourhood governance develops on the ground in diverse and complex ways, necessitating scholars to be cautious when seeking to generalize about it at the scale of the city, let alone that of the nation-state or the globe. We argue that relationships between actors are important units of analysis when considering how effective governance is achieved in different neighbourhoods; diversity and complexity in neighbourhood governance partly reflect the role of the state in these relationships. In turn the role of the state partly reflects processes of policy evolution in particular neighbourhoods.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 June 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 January 2021
Published date: May 2021
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We thank Professors Xiaolong Luo, Chuncheng Wang and Lu Xu for their invaluable support during the fieldwork for this article. We also thank the IJURR handling editor and five anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments. We gratefully acknowledge the China Scholarship Council, the Universities’ China Committee in London and University of Southampton for their funding of this research.
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China, decentralization, neighbourhood governance, the state
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