Citizen Participation at the Local Level in China and Canada

This book presents the work of leading scholars on the topic of citizen participation at the local level. Case studies compare Canadian and Chinese communities and extrapolate interesting policy-level changes at the local level based on citizen behavior and involvement. Coverage includes the characteristics of political culture and climate on local participation; factors especially unique to urban poor class migration aboriginal and immigrant populations; means of protest demonstration and articulation of preference by populations; land-use housing urban development and resource sustainability.