Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations

Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots level in China that contribute to urban development and increased public support for the legitimacy and authority of the Chinese state. Beibei Tang uncovers new trends and dynamics of urban neighborhood governance since the 2000s to reveal the significant factors that contribute to regime survival.

Tang introduces the concept of hybrid authoritarianism, a governance mechanism an authoritarian stat...