Citizen participation at the local level in China and Canada / edited by Andrew Sancton and Chen Zhenming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sancton, Andrew, 1948- editor.

Zhenming, Chen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizens' associations.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the work of leading scholars on the topic of citizen participation at the local level. Case studies compare Canadian and Chinese communities and extrapolate interesting policy-level changes at the local level based on citizen behavior and involvement. Coverage includes the characteristics of political culture and climate on local participation; factors especially unique to urban poor, class migration, aboriginal, and immigrant populations; means of protest, demonstration, and articulation of preference by populations; land-use, housing, urban development, and resource sustai

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; About the Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction to Citizen Participation at the Local Level in China and Canada: Comparative Cases; Chapter 2: The Paradox of Participation: An Overview of Public Participation and Local Government in Canada; Chapter 3: The Development and Chinese Characteristics of Civic Participation in Local Governance: The Perspective of the Transformation of Governmental Functions; Chapter 4: Participation of the Urban Poor in Vancouver, Canada

Chapter 5: Community-Based Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of the Zhonghua Subdistrict in XiamenChapter 6: Civic Mobilization for Environmental Protection; Chapter 7: Citizen Action for Sustainable Development: Case Studies in London, Ontario, Canada1; Chapter 8: Fight or Facilitate? Social Policy, Municipal Government, and Civil Society in an Economically Disadvantaged Canadian Region1; Chapter 9: Public Participation in Low-Rent Housing Policy: A Case Study of Xiamen

Chapter 10: Social Capital and Local Initiative Participation of Chinese Villagers: Analysis of Factors Affecting Villagers' Participation in Village Committee ElectionChapter 11: Facilitating the Participation of Immigrant Students in Canada's Schools; Chapter 12: An Analysis of Urban Education Policies Pertaining to Migrant Workers' Children; Chapter 13: Newcomers to the City: Institutional and Noninstitutional Modes of Civic Participation for Newcomers in Ottawa; Chapter 14: Conclusion; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-25611-6

1-4822-2898-X

9780429256110

OCLC:

893735857