Neighborhood governance in post-reform urban China: Place attachment impact on civic engagement in Guangzhou. (2019) Land Use Policy, 81: 472-482 (SSCI)
Neighborhood governance in post-reform urban China: Place attachment impact on civic engagement in Guangzhou. (2019) Land Use Policy, 81: 472-482 (SSCI)
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改革后中国城市的邻里治理：广州公民参与的地方依恋影响。
作者：
Rong Wu;Zhigang Li;Ye Liu;Xu Huang;Yuqi Liu
自20世纪80年代中期以来，中国经历了前所未有的农村向城市移民潮，导致城市人口，特别是大城市人口快速增长。这些流动人口对地方当局的社区治理提出了挑战。特别是，据报道，那些没有正式登记身份（户口）的人对目的地社区的地方依恋程度较低，似乎缺乏参与公民参与的积极性。在此背景下，本文的第一个目标是探讨居民参与公民参与愿望的决定因素，强调他们的地方依恋和参与经验的影响。第二个目标是讨论居民公民参与的异质性，这种异质性源于居民登记身份的差异。为此，将户口持有者群体（本地居民和转移户口的流动人口）与非户口流动人口群体在参与意愿和相关机制方面进行对比。利用2015年对广州1273名居民的调查数据，线性概率模型的逐步方法揭示了两个主要的实证结果。第一，居民的地方依恋在居民参与行为经验的中介作用下，对居民参与公民参与意愿有直接的正向影响。第二，与本地居民群体相比，移民的地方依恋更低，参与公民参与（包括实际行为和未来愿望）的程度更低，移民参与经验的中介作用要弱得多。这意味着，如果没有户口，农民工就无法从他们的参与经历中获得积极反馈，因此不太愿意参与公民参与。基于这些发现，本文概述了居民地方依恋的异质性和公民参与的制度障碍。户口制度仍然限制了外来人口的参与，因此社区治理政策制定者应该寻求解决中国城市的户口限制问题。
China has experienced an unprecedented surge in rural-urban migration since the mid-1980s, leading to rapid growth in urban populations, especially in large cities. These floating populations pose a challenge to local authorities with respect to neighborhood governance. In particular, those lacking official registration status (hukou) are reported to possess lower place attachment to the destination neighborhood and seem to lack as- piration to participate in civic engagement. Against this background, the paper’s first objective is to explore the determinants of residents’ aspiration to participate in civic engagement, emphasizing the effects of their place attachment and experience of participation. Its second objective is to discuss the heterogeneity of residents’ civic engagement rooted in the difference in their residential registration status. To this end, a group of hukou holders (native residents and migrants who transferred hukou) are contrasted with a group of non-hukou migrants with respect to the aspiration to participate and related mechanisms. Using evidence from a 2015 survey of 1273 residents in Guangzhou, a stepwise approach of linear probability models reveals two main empirical findings. First, residents’ place attachment has a direct positive impact on their aspiration to participate in civic en- gagement, mediated by residents’ experience of participation behavior. Second, compared to the native residents group, migrants possess lower place attachment and participate less in civic engagement (both actual behavior and future aspiration), and the mediation effect of migrants’ participation experience is much weaker. This implies that, without hukou status, migrants lack positive feedback from their participation experience and so are less eager to participate in civic engagement. Based on these findings, the paper outlines the heterogeneity in residents’ place attachment and the institutional barriers to civic engagement. The hukou system still restricts migrants’ participation, so neighborhood governance policy-makers should seek to address this hukou constraint in urban China..