The Public Affairs & Local Governance Research Center of Nanjing University was founded in 1997 and was one of the first group of research institutions nominated as the Key Philosophy and Social Science Research Centers of Jiangsu Province.

The center is devoted to studies of government administration and governmental processes, local governance and public policy, political psychology and political culture, social stability and crisis management, and NGO and citizenship behavior.

Since 2013, the center has been holding an annual academic workshop on “Political culture, political psychology and behavior” in cooperation with prominent scholars at home and abroad, and it has published a well-received Studies Series of Social Stability (in China).

Contact

Tel:+86-25-89680610

Email: yaoyuan@nju.edu.cn/ xiaotb@yeah.net

For more information visit the center's website.