2022/03/25 by Zhilin Liu, Sainan Lin, Tingting Lu +2 · 41 citations
Health Professions · Mathematics · Medicine · #2019-20 coronavirus outbreak #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #China #Community Health and Development #Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) #Corporate governance #Dynamics (music) #Economic geography #Economic growth #Economic system #Economics #Geography #Homelessness and Social Issues #Management #Mathematics #Medicine #Neighbourhood (mathematics) #Order (exchange) #Outbreak #Political science #Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) #Sociology #State (computer science) #Virology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/00420980221081314
published in Urban Studies 60(9), 1730-1749 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2022/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The state-society relationship in neighbourhood governance has been a focal topic in the urban governance literature, though the existing scholarship was primarily drawn from non-crisis situations. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, this study investigates the intricate state-society dynamics manifested at the neighbourhood scale as state and societal actors collaborated during China's COVID-19 responses. Our study reveals a pattern of collaborative rather than confrontational dynamics between resident committees and other stakeholders during pandemic responses, which reflects the emergence of a constructed order of neighbourhood co-governance in urban China. Previous community-building reforms consolidated the political legitimacy, power and capacity of resident committees, which were empowered to play a critical coordinating role in bridging hierarchical state mobilisation and horizontal stakeholders in the collaborative pandemic responses. These findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of neighbourhood co-governance in the international literature and provide lessons for resilience governance from a comparative lens.