The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world.
While early observations have primarily focused on government actions, neighborhoods are …

Qualitative comparative methods-and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons-are
central to the study of politics. They are not the only kind of comparison, though, that can …

The state–society relationship in neighbourhood governance has been a focal topic in the
urban governance literature, though the existing scholarship was primarily drawn from non …

Rapid urbanization in China and the resultant social problems have prompted the
government to experiment with “community building”. One such experiment, attempting to …

To improve the modernization of social governance, the Chinese government has invested a
large number of resources and policies into the field of community governance in recent …

Determinants of individual participation in neighbourhood public affairs have been subject to
growing scholarly interest. Urban scholars have adopted the social capital perspective to …

This paper examines processes of adaptive governance and authoritarian resilience
through the lens of community governance, bringing together hitherto unrelated fields of …

This study examines the perceived effectiveness of neighborhood councils (NCs) in Los
Angeles, a government-sanctioned and financed institutional innovation in urban …

This article compares government transparency and public participation in policymaking
across China and the United States. The analysis specifically focuses on the notice and …

It all began in September 2005 when Andrew Sancton and Carol Agócs, colleagues at the
University of Western Ontario, both visited China for the first time as guests of universities in …