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Published in: Public Organization Review 1/2009

01-03-2009

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Public Involvement in the Immigration Plan for the Nanji Islands, China

Authors: Ganlin Huang, Curtis Ventriss

Published in: Public Organization Review | Issue 1/2009

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Abstract

A centralized political context such as China provides a harsh environment for public involvement program that intends to share decision-making power with the public, however, there are still learning opportunities that can survive and prepare the public for a meaningful participation in the future. This article illustrates this point by designing a public involvement program that is implementable and educational in Nanji Islands, China. The public involvement program is designed to solve conflicts and tension regarding to an immigration plan between the public and local government and organized by a third party. It includes information sharing, public representatives election, and negotiation meeting between public representatives and governmental officials. The six-dimension framework from Alterman’s classic work is employed to test its feasibility within the local context.
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Footnotes
1
Personal communication with several project managers working in the East Asia Sector Rural Development Unit in the World Bank in May 2004.
 
2
There are five administrative levels in China: central, provincial, prefecture, county and town. Village is under town and not regarded as a local government. It still has a village office, which does some administrative work but is more like a branch of the town government.
 
3
From Annual report on rural income distribution and profits statistics of Nanji Town 2002. In Chinese.
 
4
From Annual Statistic Book of Pingyang County 2001. In Chinese.
 
5
From interview with the official in charge of statistic in Nanji town and the questionnaire survey.
 
6
From General Plan of Nanji National Nature Reserve, Zhejiang. Conducted by School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing University in 2002. In Chinese.
 
7
See Chapter 2 Item 18 of the National Natural Reserve Regulation (1994).
 
8
Interview with the school teacher and author’s observations.
 
9
Interviews with local people.
 
10
Interviews with the Nanji town governor and the deputy governor of Pingyang County, who is in charge of the immigration plan.
 
11
Personal observation and interview with the doctor.
 
12
Interviews with the chairman of town people’s congress and the vice town governor.
 
13
Due to the weather condition, the questionnaire survey was done within nine villages on the major island, Nanji island and did not include the households from Dalei island and Zhuyu island.
 
14
Personal communication.
 
15
Ganlin Huang, February 2004, Result of the questionnaire survey.
 
16
The estimated budget for resettlement was about 0.6 million dollars, which was far beyond NI government’s annual budget, 30 thousand dollars. The plan was to have YTC afford most of the funding and the county government will do a match-up if necessary.
 
17
From interview with the vice president of YTC.
 
18
The summer vacation starts mid July in China.
 
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Metadata
Title
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Public Involvement in the Immigration Plan for the Nanji Islands, China
Authors
Ganlin Huang
Curtis Ventriss
Publication date
01-03-2009
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Organization Review / Issue 1/2009
Print ISSN: 1566-7170
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7098
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-008-0064-5

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