Neighborhood Committee And Its Strategy In Dissymmetrical Dependent Structure

From the mid of 1990s,Shanghai and other cities'grassroot community are facing the same condition——neighborhood committee is a grassroot self-government organization,but it becoming more and more govermental in practice.In recent years, many cities try to take some measure to lighten the burden of neighborhood committee.However, the intititution arrangement have get very limited effect.Some research have proposed some thinking on the problem of the dilemma of lightening the burden of neighborhood committee: the path dependence approach view the community construction as the process of state strenthen the control of soceiety, the changing of neighborhood committee in fact is the part of city grassroot regiem building, because of the control inertia of citiy management system and the behavior inertia of the lower authourites, the burden of neighborhood committee cannot lighten virtually; from the perpective of grassrot soceity development ,the lack of cicilian resources approach find the danwei-cconsciousness and government-dependence of the citizens , limitied-participation, the lack of civil organizations have the inner-connection of neighborhood committee's heavey burden; the poliy ececutive approach hols that the bluring responsibility,the leak of fomal law is the important reason refers to the limited effect of lignten burden practice.On the topic of lightening neighborhood committee's heavey burden, some researches are influenced by state and society theory more or less, tend to view neighborhood committee as a passive actor to adapte the institution arrangement. Resarchers hold that neighborhood committee is a self-government organization belongs to soceiety, the heavy govermnetal burden on neighborhood committee means the state contrl the self-government organization.Thus, the essential of lightening the heavey burden on neighborhood committee is make the neighborhood committee form a adminstrative organization to a self-government organization. In this logic, neighborhood committee was labled as a self-government organization, it is becoming more and more administrative on the strctual froces .This logic ignore this important problem: neighborhood committee is not only a passive adaptor , but also an actor has its own rationality.This paper hold that we can from the new logice of'actor's initiative', review the logic of neighborhood committee'action in complex institutional inviroment, and analyze the dilemma of lightening the burden of neighborhood committee deeply. This paper propose these questions: what is the institutional enviroment of neighborhood committee ? How neighborhood committee response to the influence from its enviroment? How is the poliy designed to lignten the heavy buredn on neighborhood committee has changed the relationship between neighborhood committee and its enviroment? How is neighborhood committee response to this changing and take corresponding action strategy?This paper ues the resources dependence theory, apply the analysis frame of'dependence structure and action strategy'to research the process of lightening the heavy bureden on neighborhoo committee taken by L administrative street community of Shanghai. This paper came to a conclusion that neighborhood committee has its action logic in complex enviroment, this action logic is connect to certain inter-dependent structure. As a double attibute and exterior organization, neighborhood committee and its enviroment foming a dissymmetrical dependent structure. On this special dependent structure, neighborhood committee takes the initiative administration strategy in order to strenghten the dependent relation with government.The institution arrangement designed to lightening the heavy bureden on neighborhood committee has stealthy changed this relationship between neighborhood committee and government in some sense. Facing this changing, neighborhood committee take some active measures: in rivalrousness dependent relationship, neighborhood committee takes some strategy in order to changing the enviroment; in symbiotic dependent relationship, neighborhood committee takes some strategy in order to adpting the enviroment. Neighborhood committee's rational choice and action are full of the practice of lightening the heavey burden on neighborhood committee. Thi delimma of lightening neighborhood committee's heavey burden is not only owing to the structual forces, but also the result of inter-construction of neighborhood committee and its environment, the result of'prodction and re-production'of strategic inter-action between neighborhood committee and its environment, the result of inter-construction between organization and its environment.