Children's Participation in Community Governance in Nanjing, China

A mixed-methods study from Nanjing, a pioneer in China's child-friendly city initiative, develops a culturally grounded analytical framework for children's rights. The research combines questionnaire surveys and social media text analysis to explore multi-level influencing factors across social-ecological systems. Authored by Xiangyu Chen and last updated in May 2026, the 676.2 KB document is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing multi-level factors influencing children's participation based on the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem framework.
• Studying the family-community synergy mechanism as a distinct feature of children's participation in local governance.
• Modeling the three-stage gradient of children's rights realization (awareness, ability, empowerment) based on the study's findings.
• Examining the tension between protection and empowerment shaped by administrative evaluation logic and structural mismatches.

Strengths

• Framework is grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and social ecology theory.
• Employs a mixed-methods approach combining questionnaire surveys and social media text analysis.
• Provides a localized analytical refinement to global children's participation research.
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 676.2 KB DOCX file, indicating a limited scope primarily containing analytical text.
• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The data is geographically focused on Nanjing, China, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Mixed-methods approach combining questionnaire surveys and social media text analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 05:44:18.

Geography

Nanjing, China