Property rights reforms and changing grassroots governance in China's urban-rural peripheries: The case of changping district in Beijing

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 509-528

  Po, Lanchih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; POLITICAL POWER; PROPERTY RIGHTS; REFORM PROCESS; SOCIAL CONFLICT; URBANIZATION; VILLAGE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHANGPING; CHINA;

EID: 79551583764     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010390233     Document Type: Article

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