The Study in Neighborhood Organizations

近年来，一方面经济活动和环境污染正在跨越国界，另一方面，政府的分权使地方自治得到缓解。邻里组织是地方民主的重要载体之一，近年来受到人们的广泛关注。本文通过对中国、韩国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、菲律宾、瑞典、泰国、美国等十个国家的邻里组织的比较研究，试图揭示出各国邻里组织的社会特征，并在此基础上，进一步明确我国邻里组织的社会功能，为我国邻里组织的发展提供借鉴。社区组织是指具有以下特征的居民组织：（1）具有一定的地域性;（2）从事社区管理工作;（3）代表居民利益。

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.