How Governance Tools Facilitate Citizen Co-Production Behavior in Urban Community Micro-Regeneration: Evidence from Shanghai

Jinpeng Wu and Jing Xiong
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Jinpeng Wu: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, 30 Shuangqing Road, Beijing 100084, China
Jing Xiong: School of International and Public Affairs, China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Xinjian Building 329, Shanghai 200030, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-18

Abstract: Citizen participation and input in urban community micro-regeneration is a co-production behavior that is conducive to improving citizens’ sense of belonging, thereby promoting community governance. In the context of low co-production levels amongst citizens, how the government adopts mobilization instruments is an important challenge. This paper investigates whether governance tools can facilitate citizen co-production behavior in an urban community micro-regeneration setting using a structural equation modeling method and the stimulus organism response theory. Based on a survey of citizens who participated in community micro-regeneration co-production in Shanghai, this paper demonstrates the significant positive effects associated with information- and incentive-based tools in citizen in-role and extra-role co-production behavior; however, the effect degree was shown to differ. Moreover, the level of perceived benefits is a significant mediating variable between governance tools and in-role co-production behavior. In this study, we constructed and verified a novel and valuable theoretical perspective with which to explore urban regeneration. It was concluded that policymakers should follow the governance principle of classified development and tool matching for citizen co-production behavior in urban community micro-regeneration.

Keywords: urban community micro-regeneration; citizen co-production; governance tools; perceived benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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