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Grid Governance in China's Urban Middle-class Neighbourhoods

Tang, Beibei·2020·The China Quarterly
DOI 10.1017/s0305741019000821
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This article examines the so-called “grid governance” scheme, a widely used grassroots governance strategy implemented in urban China in recent years. Drawing on data collected in multiple cities from 2011 to 2016, it analyses in what ways, and to what extent, the state employs the grid governance scheme to resolve neighbourhood conflicts and reinforce governance in Chinese urban middle-class neighbourhoods. The findings highlight complex interactions under the scheme among the residents, the state and market actors in neighbourhood governance, including the resident volunteers, residents’ social groups, residents’ committees and property management companies. By coopting middle-class resident volunteers, maximizing the existing political influence of the retired urban elites, and establishing Party organizations in middle-class residential communities, the grid governance scheme has become a major vehicle for resident mobilization and conflict resolution, and a key governance mechanism to reinforce the Party's leadership in middle-class neighbourhoods.

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Authors
Tang, B.
Affiliations
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (CN)
Corresponding author
Tang, Beibei
ORCID
Tang, Beibei
Venue
The China Quarterly
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2019-08-05
Volume
241
Pages
43-61
ISSN
  • 0009-4439 (ISSN-L)
  • 0305-7410
  • 1468-2648
DOI
10.1017/s0305741019000821
OpenAlex
W2966632778
Cited by
118
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 8
FWCI
43.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
The China Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
Keywords
grassroots governance, residents' committees, property management companies, party leadership, resident mobilization, state-market relations, China

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Tang, B. (2020). Grid Governance in China's Urban Middle-class Neighbourhoods. The China Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741019000821