Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance: Territory-Based Networks and Residential Outcomes in Urban China

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 992-1006

  Fu, Qiang ^a   He, Shenjing ^b   Zhu, Yushu ^c   Li, Si Ming ^d   He, Yanling ^e   Zhou, Huoning ^f   Lin, Nan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Community Development Center of Guangdong ^*  (China)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; neighborhood governance; network forms of organization; social capital; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930999632     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215580610     Document Type: Article

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