| Description |
xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Chinese worlds |
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Chinese worlds.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Self-administration -- Conclusion -- 5.Shequ governance -- Electoral processes in the shequ -- A reservoir of ̀volunteers': local party organizations -- Informal participation -- Case studies -- Conclusion -- 6.New schemes of social security: urban neighbourhood communities as institutions of output legitimacy -- Shequ: new social welfare providers -- The unemployed and their perspectives -- The politics of urban income support -- Income support funding -- The Residents' Committee: social security agency -- Conclusion -- 7.Attitudes -- Participation -- Attitude towards elections -- Preference towards certain types of election -- Attitudes towards Residents' Committees -- Attitudes towards homeowners' committees -- Conclusion -- 8.Conclusion -- One step back, two steps forward? -- Why is China so stable? |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: political innovation without democratization -- The reorganization of China's urban neighbourhoods -- Infrastructural power -- Governance and community -- Imposed communities: the shequ -- Governmentality and regime stability -- The argument -- Data -- 2.Social control, social fragmentation, and the reimposition of state power -- Urban institutions of social control -- The withdrawal of the state and growing social instability -- Social fragmentation and disintegration -- Reacting to new demands on the state -- Conclusion -- 3.Enhancing infrastructural power: shequ organization -- The organization of urban neighbourhoods -- Tasks -- Financial resources -- Salaries -- Associations -- Homeowners' committees: semi-autonomous bodies challenging formal structures -- Conclusion -- 4.Legitimating narratives -- The telos of a harmonious shequ -- Turning subjects into citizens -- Delineating autonomy: the moral state -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-186) and index |
| Subject |
Community development -- China.
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Neighborhood government -- China.
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Urban policy -- China.
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| Author |
Göbel, Christian, 1973 June 25-
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| LC no. |
2010039696 |
| ISBN |
0415597021 |
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9780415597029 (hbk) |
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