Research On Peasants Rationalization, Rural Governance And Rural Public Service Efficiency

Efficiency is the core of constructing a harmonious socialist society. As the most important ingredient of efficiency, efficiency of rural public service is the key of constructing new socialist countryside, and an important link in national strategies of building the well-off society. During the transition period, China’s rural public service is inefficient, exemplified by the inefficiency of the public service projects, structural imbalance between public service supply and demand, the low efficiency of resource allocation and utilization, the lack of expected effect from many rural public service projects, just name a few. The reasons to the inefficiency are as follows: the coexistence of farmers’ plural ideas, the faking of governance performance, and the resulting mismatch of the output of public service and its input. Thus this paper constructs two overall relationship models to analyze how to improve rural public service efficiency. The first model focuses on the construction system of rural public service and the inter-relationship of its sub-system, revealing the logical relationship of effectiveness, input-output ration and benefits. The second model, which consists such core variables as peasants rationalization, rural governance and the rural public service efficiency, is used to analyze the logical relationship between the three. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework, scientific approach and research conclusions to solve the problem of inefficiency in rural public service.This paper is made up of seven chapters. In the first chapter, the background, purpose and significance of the research, methodologies and the analytical framework are introduced. Besides, the core concepts are defined and the innovations and the defects of this paper are illustrated. In the second chapter, the theoretical foundation and literature are introduced and analyzed, mainly on the three following theories: public service, rational choice, rural governance and their practice in Chinese context, which lays a foundation for further analysis. In the third chapter, the analytical framework, which consists of three sub-models, is constructed by core variables as peasants rationalization, rural governance and the rural public service efficiency. In the fourth chapter, research methods are introduced; the variables are abstracted and the scales are designed. In the fifth chapter, the mechanism and effects of the rural public service efficiency have been analyzed from a holistic and systematic approach. And the intervening mechanism that rural governance has on the relationship between peasants rationalization and the rural public service efficiency will also be analyzed. In the sixth chapter, conclusions are made, solutions are suggested and on this basis, the future research is presented.This paper reveals that: firstly, the rural public service efficiency promotion should be realized in a holistic and systematic approach. Overall, during this transformation period with multiple tasks, the increase of rural public service efficiency depends on target optimization, platform security and path optimization. Thus, the issue of the rural public service efficiency promotion should be considered in a holistic view to advance the structure optimization, benign interaction and the increase of holistic effects of the key elements. Second, the overall increase of rural public service efficiency depends on the organic unification of effectiveness, input-output ratio and benefits. Overall, the promotion of rural public service efficiency consists of effectiveness, input-output ratio and benefits, and the three exist in the relationship of co-variation. The breaking relationship between any two of them will exert negative impact on the global improvement of rural public service efficiency. From the view of interaction mechanism, there exists a covariant relationship among the three. There is a direct influence between benefits and input-output ratio; also the two have a direct influence on effectiveness. Effectiveness has an indirect influence on benefits through input-output ratio and has indirect influence on input-output ratio through benefits. Third, in order to promote the rural public service efficiency, the covariant relationship among peasants rationalization, rural governance and the rural public service efficiency should be strengthened. In particular, peasants rationalization and rural governance have a direct influence on the rural public service efficiency; peasants rationalization has an indirect influence on the rural public service efficiency through rural governance. Fourth, the significant positive impact of peasants rationalization on the rural public service efficiency is partially mediated by rural governance and the publicity is the foundation of this impact.The innovations of this paper are as follows: to begin with, the conclusion has falsified that farmers’ individual rationalism has negative effect on the rural public service efficiency. Also this paper verifies that the increase of farmers’ ability, the smoothing of communication channels, reasonable distributions of public resources and farmers’ relational rationalization have non-significant impact on the rural public service efficiency. What’s more, the approach of this research has certain innovation. This paper integrates the rural public service efficiency theory, peasants rationalization theory and rural governance theory, which belong to different subjects, and puts forward a new model to analyze the rural public service efficiency promotion. This integrated approach overcomes the deficiency of single perspective. Also, this paper is a localized exploration of these theories. Thirdly, the research methods have certain innovation: the scales are independently designed and the models are confirmed by data from large samples, which compensates for the lack of empirical researches based on large samples.