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Strategy Principle And The Maintaining State

Posted on:2011-08-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J OuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360305492042Subject:Sociology
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Taking the main task and the practice of the township government as a clue, this article isexpected to revolve the issue'what is the township government in rurul China' by obserbing'whatthe township government does'and 'how it does'. That's to say, the core question of this article isto answer'what is the operation logic and the characteristic of the township government.The author has carried on participant observation in a middle province's townshipgovernment-orange town for a whole year, and thus has an overall prehension on the operation of the township government. On this basis, this article will reveal the the operation logic and the characteristic of the township government, what's more, it will responses the significant theoretical and realistic question that how to construct the basic unit of the state.This article carries on from the following three angles:the bureaucrat system, the pressure system and the rural society to present the township government's operation logic and the characteristic. The research discovered that the strategy principle is the basic logic of the operation of township government, and maintaining the present situation is essential characteristic.The township government's distinctive quality lies that it is in state and society's interface point, on the one hand, it listed in the bureaucrat system bottom, on the other hand, it faces a top-down rural society. Different to the'complete bureaucrat', the township government has two remarkable characteristics. First, the financial resources are deficient; second, the foundational authority is small and weak. Under this difficult position, the township government use strategy principle to gain financial resources: Through loosening the birth control to increase the financial revenue; By the name of homestead examination and the town construction to gain the financial revenue from the land; Apply the special funds to obtain financial resource. Although these survival strategies are not legitimate, but because it can effectively deal with the financial resources deficient difficult, therefore become the operation logic of the township government..The top-down pressure system is the remarkable strength to shape the strategy principlelogic of the township government.The pressure system take'the political championship tournament'to be one kind of incentive mechanism, the bureaucrat system efficiently operate through the'high target'and the promotion,. The promotion system and the rising high target finally cause the strategy principle logic of the township government.When the township government is in the pressure system, it also must to face the rural society. Different to the rationalized, the stylized, the standardized urban societ, the current rural society has not developed a civil society which matched with the modern bureaucrat, it still have the rural society's characteristic:the non-regularization behavior pattern the atomization of the village society; the irrationality after the rural disenchantment; the special principle of the social relations and so on. These rural characteristics have modeled the strategy principle logic of the township government.Operating between the three component, the township government must simultaneously deal with the following contradiction:the deficient resources and feeble authority of the bureaucrat and pressure system's the multi-objectives and high target; the deficient resources and feeble authority of the bureaucrat and the rural society's demand; the unregular rural society and the standardized bureaucrat. The strategy principle logic of the township government and its characteristic of maintaining the present situation; these issues molded the special characteristics of the township government.Based on the logic and the characteristic of the township government'operation, this article believed that, to remold the structures which determinded the logic and characteristic of the township government, to strength the foundational authority of the township government, and to construct the ability of the township government to serve the rural society, is the priority target and the duty of state construction; The basic goal of state construction is to reconstruct the core value of the society and the foundational standard of value which are the foundation to the operation of the state infrastructure and the rule system.
Keywords/Search Tags:The maintaining and controlling state, Township government, Strategy principle, The bureaucrat system, The pressure system, Rural society
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