Self-Governance and Community
A Preliminary Comparison between Villagers’ Committees and Urban Community Councils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4880883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Benewick (University of Sussex), Irene Tong (Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.), Irene L K Tong (University of Hong Kong), J Howell (0000-0003-0643-2464, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-28 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-203X • E-ISSN: 1741-590X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0920203x04040361 |
| OpenAlex | W2026400350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article has three objectives: 1) to assess the contribution of villager self-government to the development of community councils in urban China; 2) to discuss whether there are lessons to be learned from the experiments in urban community councils relevant to the building of rural communities; and 3) most importantly, to raise theoretical issues common to both villager self-government and urban community councils. In fulfilling these three aims, this article will further understanding of the expansion of grassroots democracy and increasing citizens' participation in China. The article's comparative approach will incorporate an analysis of the institutionalization of the 'Four Democracies' at the village level and the extent to which they are also being implemented in the different and varying circumstances of the urban experiments and environments. We are interested in whether the villagers' committees and residents' committees, especially the latter in their restyled community status, are training grounds for citizenship. The different human landscapes of village and community, however, will have a profound effect on the nature and exercise of citizenship
Active citizenship · Business · China · Citizenship · Community organization · Community organizing · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economic growth · Government (linguistics · Grassroots · Institutionalisation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Public Administration
Approaching Neighborhood Democracy from a Longitudinal Perspective
Urban villages in China and India
Continuity and Change in Chinese Grassroots Governance
Democratic Localism
Social Changes and Neighbourhood Policy in Shanghai
Dual decentralization in China's transitional economy
Reasserting the public in public service delivery
Restructuring urban governance
Of Quality, Harmony, and Community
Urban street fairs in Curitiba from the ecosocioeconomy perspective
Depoliticisation, hybridisation and dual processes of stigmatisation
Administrative reclassification and neighborhood governance in urbanizing China
Property Rights Reforms and Changing Grassroots Governance in China’s Urban—Rural Peripheries
Spontaneous or Constructed? Neighborhood Governance Reforms in Los Angeles and Shanghai
Public participation in China’s green communities
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections
Mediating the Mediation Debate
China's Middle Class
A Rural-Urban Divide? Reassessing Voting in Chinese Villagers’ Committee and Residents’ Committee Elections
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China
The Rite to Vote
Popular Support for Grassroots Self-Government in Urban China
Political Participation in China
Grassroots Transformation in Contemporary China
Governance Reforms in China and Vietnam
From Serving Neighbors to Recontrolling Urban Society
Home Ownership and Political Participation in Urban China
Contesting Citizenship in Urban China
Elections and Power
Revitalizing the State's Urban “Nerve Tips”
Taxation without Representation
Accommodating “Democracy” in a One-Party State
China, Corporatism, and the East Asian Model
Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China
The Two-Ballot System in Shanxi Province
The Chinese Debate Over Village Self-Government
Research notes on villagers’ committee election
Mutual empowerment of state and peasantry
Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China
Prospects for village self-governance in China
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |