Community Governance From The Perspective Of Interaction Between State And Society

Since 2011,the sub-district offices have been repealed and divided into several “community service centers” in Guiyang.Community Service Center is combined with the Party Committee of Community and Citizen Council of Community,called as the “New Community”,which institutionallybuilds an urban local governance mode as“ small government,big society,multi-agents and strong self-governance.”However,from the fact that this community reformation has little external effects,we can see that the design of community system cannot guarantee the realization of its goal.This paper,based on the field research and social intervention method,from the angle ofinteraction between state and society,aims at exploringthe situations of community governance and the obstacle to realizing the goal of community reformation through a case study in Guiyang(called Wudang Community in this paper),and proposing theoretical suggestions.This paper argues thatthe “state” in the community can only be seen as “the representative of state”,while the state at upper level does not come into the community field.The “state” in community is the strategic agent under pressure from the regimebuilding and society-building;the obstacle to realizing the goal of city governance structure as ‘small government,big society,multi-agents and strong self-governance' is the limit of “state” in community,which cannot really cultivate society or mobilize society effectively.From the analysis of Wudang community,we can see that society development needs to bring the state back at basic level.The state needs to penetrate into grass-root society,supporting the related work in community and making the “state” in community has more resources and abilities to cultivate society.By analyzing the essence of methodologyof Gramsci's hegemony theory,this paper argues that community governance should be a hegemony-building,combing the state and the society.To be more specific,this kind of hegemony-building sees the regime-building(state penetrating into grass-root society)and community development(society-cultivating)as a dialectical unity,the micro-interaction between state and society at community level should also make both two a dialectical unity.Above conclusions carry on the essence of overall method of Marxism in terms of community building,and this paper believes that this kind of hegemony building can remove the obstacle to achieving the above goal of modernization of community governance.Community governance must base on citizens' everyday lives,and state must penetrate into society effectively,not as “political tasks” but creating interest structure that connects with citizens' lives.So it can coordinate with the leading of state,realizing the hegemony of state and civil society.