The classic urban ecological paradigm envisioned the articulation of the social organization of neighborhoods with that of the city as a whole. This article offers novel empirical evidence in support of this proposition. We analyze the microrelations of governance across two key urban domains, politics and nonprofit organizations, and identify the district-based politician as a key actor linking neighborhood-based and citywide forms of social organization. Using data of contracts allocated by city council members to nonprofits in New York City, analysis of the social network system linking these two types of actors shows two distinct relational dynamics: a patronage dynamic characterized by exclusive and long-lasting relationships between a council member and his/her local constituency and a partnership dynamic characterized by citywide relationships that are short-lived and fostered by organizational differentiation and embeddedness. Furthermore, politicians and nonprofits differently accommodate the copresence of these two models of resource allocation.

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城市治理的微观关系：赞助和伙伴关系的动态

经典的城市生态范式设想将社区的社会组织与整个城市的社会组织联系起来。本文提供了新的经验证据来支持这一命题。我们分析了政治和非营利组织这两个关键城市领域的治理微观关系，并将地区政治家确定为连接社区和全市社会组织形式的关键角色。使用市议会成员分配给纽约市非营利组织的合同数据，对连接这两种类型参与者的社交网络系统的分析显示了两种不同的关系动态：一种以理事会成员与其当地选民之间的排他性和长期关系为特征的赞助动力，以及一种以城市范围内的关系为特征的伙伴关系，这种关系是短暂的，并由组织差异化和嵌入性促进。此外，政治家和非营利组织以不同的方式适应这两种资源分配模型的共存。