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Citizen Action and Policy Change

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Chinese citizens are becoming more conscious of their citizenship rights. As more and more Chinese citizens are involved in different stages of the decision-making process, this is changing how decisions are made. Citizen participation has led to more “scientific” policy decisions and better implementation.

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  1. Chair Professor of the Pearl River Program (珠江学者特聘教授), Guangzhou, China

    Yanling He

  2. Department of Public Administration, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Yanling He

  3. Research Institute for Urban Governance of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Yanling He

  4. Committee for Government Strategy and Public Policy of the Chinese Research Council of Modern Management, Guangzhou, China

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  2. Department of Political Science, and Center for US-China Policy Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sujian Guo

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He, Y. (2019). Citizen Action and Policy Change. In: Yu, J., Guo, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2799-5_19

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