The Integrated Service in Urban Community Governance

This book analyzes new situations and challenges for the Shanghai model of community governance in subdistrict system reform, government-purchased services, social institution development, grid-based management and the opening-up of blocks, social governance with social power, team-building of community workers, etc., taking the reform of community governance in Shanghai. Both structural and social reasons for that are demonstrated as well. In this way, as for governance elements, the innovation process, key steps, and multiple practices in primary-level society, a systematic and integrated model restructuring is proposed, which centers on the community for solutions. To be specific, it refers to an integrated service model construction based on community, so as to advance the modernization of the primary-level governance system in Shanghai and its governance capabilities.
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Liwen Hou is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Department of Social Work, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology. He Engages in research and teaching in primary-level social governance, social work theories, social work service institutions, etc.These years, he has published numerous academic papers in both Chinese and English in journals such as Sociological Studies, Academic Monthly, and Research on Social Work Practice, some of which have been reprinted by Chinese Social Science Digest, Sociology, Journal of Social Work, and Sociology Digest. Experienced in academic research, he has presided over more than 20 research projects, including national-level projects, ministerial-level projects, provincial-level projects, and key government-commissioned projects. Additionally, he has published several books.