Differentiated governance in the Pearl River Delta: Fragmentation and flexibility (PRD 1)

珠三角的差异化治理：碎片化与灵活性（PRD 1）

• 批准号: 188319658
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Werner Breitung
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department of Political & Social Change (aufgelöst)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/188319658?language=en
• 关键词: Differentiated; governance; Pearl; River; Delta

Given the authoritarian nature of power relations in China, we surprisingly find a great variation of governance arrangements, involving formal and informal factors, across the PRD mega urban region. But what does this mean for the governability of the region? In the first phase of this project we have focused mainly on investigating how territorial differences are reflected onto the governance arrangements at the neighbourhood level – on how variations are produced. In the second phase, we have expanded the analysis to entities outside the urban areas, while at the same time investigating socio-spatial impacts of the boundaries produced by the particular modes of governance. In this third phase we wish to research the consequences of this spatial differentiation for the overall governance in the PRD. Do we see a process of fragmentation in a mega city that is sliding towards planning failure, increasing segregation and internal competition? Or are we witnessing the emergence of a new form of flexible governance, where the tension between government authoritarianism and flexibility is giving way to local variations of governance modes that indeed produce economic growth and integration? We will ask these questions across three different geographic and political contexts that we have identified during our investigations, namely the urban, the suburban and the periurban, to unravel the ways in which fragmentation and flexibility are impacting governance. We expect that the combined efforts of the three phases of our project can contribute to the broader questions that the program is asking at the mega city level.

鉴于中国权力关系的威权性质，我们惊讶地发现，在整个珠三角特大城市地区，涉及正式和非正式因素的治理安排存在巨大差异。但这对该地区的治理能力意味着什么？在这个项目的第一阶段，我们主要集中在调查地域差异是如何反映到社区一级的治理安排上的，以及差异是如何产生的。在第二阶段，我们将分析扩展到城市地区以外的实体，同时调查由特定治理模式产生的边界的社会空间影响。在第三阶段，我们希望研究这种空间分化对珠三角整体治理的影响。我们是否看到了一个大城市的分裂过程，正在滑向规划失败、隔离加剧和内部竞争？或者我们正在见证一种新的灵活治理形式的出现，在这种形式中，政府威权主义和灵活性之间的紧张关系正在让位于真正产生经济增长和一体化的治理模式的地方变体？我们将在调查中确定的三种不同的地理和政治背景下提出这些问题，即城市、郊区和城郊，以揭示碎片化和灵活性影响治理的方式。我们希望项目的三个阶段的共同努力能够为该项目在特大城市层面提出的更广泛问题做出贡献。