Through interviews and comparison of practices in two Chinese cities, this article argues that local governments are forced to shift some of their excessive responsibilities to new actors. This produces a limited kind of pluralism: government organizations remain in charge of community governance.

Keywords:
community governance, local governments, governance structure, community residents’ committee, community governance structure
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