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Growth Of The PRC Villagers' Self-Governance: State Construction And Social Development

Posted on:2008-05-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360215456721Subject:Political Theory
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The PRC villagers' self-governance is an important institutional system which is being practiced by hundreds of millions of rural peasants, so it has theoretical and practical significance to study it. In the perspective of the development of villagers' self-governance for more than 20 years and social interaction between modern state and farmers, the writer used analysis paradigm of "state-society" to analyze the logic of the development of villagers' self-governance, issues and the problems of villagers' self-governance in practice. He also discussed the direction of further development of villagers' self-governance and four issues which are necessary to solve. Specifically, this paper is divided into two sections. In the first section, under the perspective of putting the villagers' self-governance into construction of the modern state theory, the writer understands villagers' self-governance from the background, generating reasons, logical growth and development difficulties. At the same time, the writer also tried to show us villagers' self-governance's history of occurrence and development clearly, In the second section, in the perspective of rural social development and community renewal, the writer discussed the future development of villagers' self-governance; and maintained that the future development of villagers' self-governance depended on the rural society development, especially its internal aspect. Particularly, it is necessary to solve these questions: organizational foundation, financial foundation, cultural foundation and social foundation of villagers' self-governance and etc.There are four parts: introduction, the first section, the second section and conclusion.In the introduction part, the writer shows us the origins and significance of the topic, the existing research and analysis of ideas and concepts.The first section is about State Construction. Under the perspective of putting the villagers' self-governance into construction of the modern state theory, the writer understood villagers' self-governance from the background, generating reasons, logical growth and development difficulties. At the same time, the writer also tried to show us villagers' self-governance's history of occurrence and development clearly. There are four chapters in the first section.In Chapter I, under the perspective of relations between the state and rural society, the writer "reviewed" village governance structures of the traditional country, the late Qing Dynasty Period and People's Commune Period .In this way it is easy for us to have a picture of changeable history of Chinese rural society and we can easily understand the historical background of villagers' self-governance. In chapter II, under the perspective of Construction of the Modern State, the writer sorted out the disbandment history of people' Commune and the growth of villagers' self-governance, discussion the historical necessity and rationality of villagers' self-governance in Chinese rural society.In Chapter III, under three dimensions the writer showed us the outline of the growth of villagers' self-governance. Meanwhile, as a spontaneous social democratic system, villagers' self-governance which is a nationwide starting is "a process of social democracy depending on national force for its promoting and advancing." It is a process that government makes legal system standardize villagers' self-governance, makes standard activities promote villagers' self-governance and make Mechanism innovation deepen villagers' self-governance.In chapter IV, under the unbalanced perspective of Construction of the Modern State, the writer discussed two outstanding issues: irregularities of rural relations and contradictions of "Two Committees". He also analyzed the performance and reasons of irregularities of rural relations, the performance and reasons of contradictions of "Two Committees" and negative impact to villagers' self-governance. In the writer's opinion, it is internal tension of Construction of the Modern State that makes irregularities of rural relations and contradictions of "Two Committees".The second section is about Social Development. In the second section, in the perspective of rural social development and community renewal, the writer discusses the future development of villagers' self-governance; and maintained that the future development of villagers' self-governance depended on rural social development, especially its internal aspect. In particular, it is necessary to solve these questions: organizational foundation, financial foundation, cultural foundation and social foundation of villagers' self-governance and etc. There are also four chapters in the second section.In chapter V, the writer discussed the organizational foundation of villagers' self-governance. He has a brief analysis of organization carrier of villagers' self-governance—Role and limits of Village Committees; in the perspective of the development of villagers' self-governance, in order to promote the development of villagers' self-governance, he thought we should actively nurture diversified and autonomous village self-organization.In chapter VI, the writer discussed the financial foundation of villagers' self-governance. Firstly, he briefly sorted out the different periods, different patterns of financial management of rural infrastructure; Secondly, he mainly focused on the analysis of new pattern of financial village after the exempt agricultural tax and the predicament of development of villagers' self-governance caused by it. Finally, in the perspective of system innovation and expanding resources, he discussed how to solve the difficulties of financial management of rural infrastructure and give us some advice on it.In chapter VII, the writer discussed cultural foundation of villagers' self-governance. Firstly, he briefly sorted out traditional village culture and its impact on rural governance; Secondly, he analyzed the loss of traditional village culture and its impact on villagers' self-governance; Finally, under the perspective of the development of villagers' self-governance, he discussed how to rebuild the rural culture.In chapter VI, the writer discussed social foundation of villagers' self-governance. In the writer's opinion, as rural elites they are very important for villagers' self-governance, and they should play an active and leading role in practice. At present, there are a large number of outflow of rural elites and this has a negative impact on the development of villagers' self-governance. In order to absorb all the elites to the mechanism of villagers' self-governance, we should develop social resources.The final section is conclusion that has a systematic indicating of important viewpoints explained in the main text. In the writer's opinion, integration of rural society is an important content of Construction of the Modern State; villagers' self-governance is the re-integration of modern state to rural society; it can be impossible for the development of villagers' self-governance without modern state's administration; the integration of rural society is an important points of Construction of the Modern State; the development of villagers' self-governance depends on the development of rural society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Villagers' Self-Governance, Construction of the Modern State, Social Development
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