Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state-society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China.

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.

Collaborative neighborhood governance and its effectiveness in community mitigation to COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of community workers in six Chinese cities.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world. While early observations have primarily focused on government actions, neighborhoods are at the frontline for coordinating grassroots level joint actions to fight against the pandemic. We draw from the collaborative governance theory and develop a theoretical framework for understanding the horizontal and hierarchical dynamics of collaborative neighborhood governance during crisis responses in urban China.

Correction to: Community environmental satisfaction: its forms and impact on migrants' happiness in urban China.

The original article [1] contains errors in the presentation of Table 5 & Table 6 whereby values are displayed in an incorrect format leading to potential misinterpretation.

Community environmental satisfaction: its forms and impact on migrants' happiness in urban China.

Background: The great number of internal migrants has become an important part of China's urban population. Improving migrants' well-being is emerging as a key to the state policy emphasized in China's New-type Urbanization Plan. Previous studies on subjective well-being (SWB) have primarily focused on the impacts of objective measures of community environment and consider migrants as a homogeneous group.