The Study in Neighborhood Organizations

近年来，经济活动和环境污染一方面跨越国界，但另一方面，政府分权使地方自律得到缓解。邻里组织是地方民主的推动者之一。我们正在对中国、韩国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、菲律宾、瑞典、泰国和美国等十个国家的邻里组织进行比较研究。我们试图找出每个国家邻里组织的社会特征，并明确其普遍意义。我们将邻里组织定义为社区组织，(1)有领土，(2)做社区管理工作，(3)代表居民的利益。

Recently, economic activities and environmental pollutions are running over national borders on the one hand, but on the other hand, decentralization of governments bring local antonomy into relief. Neighborhood orgonizations are drawing attentions one of theagents of local democracy.We are atfempting a comparative Study on neighborhood organizations in ten countries in the world, which include China, Korea, Great britain, France, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and USA.We are trying to identify social characters of the neighborhood orgamizations in each country, and to make clear, their universal significance.We define a neihorhood organization as the residential organization, (1) to have territory, (2) to do community-based management works, and (3) to represent the interests of residents.