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A Study On The Evolution Of Urban And Rural Social Welfare

Posted on:2017-05-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:G C MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330485982145Subject:Social security
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The social welfare has become a common concern nowadays; the aspiration of the people’s livelihood is increasingly diversified. Under these backgrounds, the integration study of urban-rural social welfare benefits is facing the new topics of the precisely defined connotation of welfare, the innovative technical analysis course and the generative construction of urban-rural welfare integration logic and mechanisms. This article is seeking solutions outside of the two traditional paradigms including the integration of urban-rural social welfare system and the common integration of the welfare systems. The case community is a typical KW model of village restructuring community. This provides an appropriate case to take a glimpse of the unitary integration of urban-rural welfare system.Rural-urban division is the most prominent feature of the current Chinese society, which constitutes the whole understanding and description of the problems in the crash and integration of Chinese urban-rural social welfare system.The nature of social welfare has been embedded in the urban-rural divided structure in China. The paper takes research on social welfare from dividing institution system to integrating institution system; reconstruct the logic and the operating mechanism in the rural-urban divided framework. The paper argues that only when a system analysis of the rural-urban changes is insisted on can it grasp the key of understanding the rural-urban divided structure transformation and the institution evolution of social welfare. The case study of ZSY provides us an ideal type and a typical pattern.Social welfare is defined as all things that can improve the expansion of freedom; it may involves institutions, ideas, projects, service and so on. In China, the social welfare is always characterized as dual structured that civil rights are bound with the household registration system. Urban-rural structure is a divided institution system which was constructed with the Policy for Grain Unified Purchase and Sale, household registration system, the People’s Commune Institution, etc. It is a man-made Institution Valve which was consistent with planning system during that period. We can easily find the effect of the institution control nowadays. The rural-urban transferring provides us with a good opportunity that can help us witness the mangle of the rural-urban structure.The paper catches the main clue of the mangle of institution gameplay. The framework that right clinged to the household registration system becomes looser and looser. Freedom and the capability approach get released with the development and reform of the market. The new duality frame which is combined administration-oriented dual with market-oriented dual society structure leads to a severe polarization. The case, a half-rural and half-urban village has become a real urban community with the development of urbanization. However, it is not easy to break through the rural-urban social welfare structure thoroughly.The paper finds that the nature, the characteristics, and the tendency of the social welfare are all set in rural-urban divided framework. Institution plays an elementary and very important part in our society. Urban-rural structure has survived for a long time and made a deep influence in China. The capability approach of the farmers has been released since the reform. The vast achievement of China’s economic development still fails to bring the automatic balance of the economic society structure, and it causes the new social unbalance. There is no doubt that the society structure has been left far behind the economic structure.The paper has three main parts. First, it gives an analysis of the path dependence to the urban-rural divided institution of the social welfare and the Institution Valve. Second, it points out that the dual institutions mangled drastically and integrated partly. Third, it analyzes the logic of the social welfare institutions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social Welfare, Rights clinged to Hukou, Capability Approach, Institution Valve, Institution Integration
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