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A Study On Capital Input And The Reconstruction Of The Rural Social Order

Posted on:2018-04-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZouFull Text:PDF
GTID:1367330518984652Subject:Sociology
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Development and order are two fundamental goals of the modern society,and also important themes affecting actions of local governments in the course of national governance.In this course,local governments' behavior choices under the two themes have profound impacts on the overall performance of the national governance.Rural social governance consists of rural social development and rural social order,which are closely related during actual rural social governance.In the traditional Chinese society,there is an internal logic within rural order;village regulations and folk conventions are important systems of rules governing the traditional rural order.Nevertheless,the traditional rural order is highly vulnerable,which might be disrupted by any external force.Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy,China has implemented a series of reform and policies in rural areas,deconstructing the traditional Chinese rural order.With the further development of the market economic system reform and urbanization,rural order is now faced with challenges that have never existed before.Against this background,how to build an effective rural social governance system and reconstruct rural order becomes an urgent problem for the political circles and the academia to solve.Basically,the key of this problem lies in the choice of the two goals and themes of development and order,and hence,development and order become important themes of this study.Poverty alleviation and development,being policy actions of the country,have a direct bearing on economic development and social order in poverty-stricken areas.In the policy context of poverty alleviation and development,the input of anti-poverty resources helps to accelerate the economic and social development in areas concerned,and at the same time,causes remarkable changes of the social structure and interests in the areas.Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy,China has embraced a transformation of the anti-poverty guideline from poverty relief to development-oriented poverty alleviation,and the latter has now become an important guiding principle of the anti-poverty cause in China.Among all the models of development-oriented poverty alleviation,poverty alleviation through industrialization is one of significance,and at the core of the cause.In recent years,Guizhou province endeavors to explore an industrialized poverty alleviation system,and proposes the Three Tens Project.Its construction and development of agricultural anti-poverty parks is one of the outstanding innovations of poverty alleviation through industrialization.This paper focuses on the agricultural anti-poverty parks and M town.Inspired by the concept of countrywide,this paper takes the coverage of the research objects,which are important carriers and forms of poverty alleviation and development in Guizhou,as its geographic range of research.It prevails among the agricultural anti-poverty parks that in spite of covering several villages and towns,a park is mainly based on one of the towns;the main park is located within the geographic range of one town,and consequently management or governance of the park is closely related to the town concerned.In this paper,fungus gardens of M Town are taken as the geographic center of research,and it is a countrywide research covering counties,towns,administrative villages,natural villages and villagers instead of being limited to the town level of M Town.The object of this paper is the local government behavior of M town.With a view to the themes of development and order,this paper argues that corporation governance of agricultural anti-poverty parks means establishing such parks that are mainly based on one town so as to better integrate various resources,including lands,anti-poverty funds and human resources.Agricultural parks are highly market-driven.Local governments take advantage of their own political resources,and offer anti-poverty policies as favorable terms to attract nonlocal enterprises or cultivate new business entities,and governed by super-economic power,participate in or directly involve in production and development of parks,which hopefully will better achieve industrialized operation of agriculture and economic growth goals,improve local economic development capacity,construct an agriculture-enterprise interests binding mechanism,and helps low-income families in the park areas to overcome poverty.Rural order in this paper refers to the multi-directional negotiation and interaction between local governments,villagers' autonomous organizations,villagers,market forces,social organizations and other multiple bodies countrywide on rural resource allocation and public power,which aims to promote rural social development,construct stable,regular social relationships in rural society,effectively resolve problems and contradictions emerging in the course of rural social functioning,and maintain harmonious,stable rural social relationships.According to consequences of local governments' actions in the corporation governance practice of agricultural anti-poverty parks,this paper divides rural order into economic order,social order and endogenous order.This paper conducts researches under the themes of development and order,and focuses on impacts of capital input on construction and development of agricultural anti-poverty parks and local governments' actions in the course of corporation governance as well as consequences.The paper attempts to go beyond the single analysis thought of developmentalism of local governments,actions in the background of market transformation conducted by the academia in the traditional sense,introduces capital,a key variable,and studies the agricultural anti-poverty parks by using local governments'actions as analysis tools.In the current policy context of poverty alleviation,input of multiple capital leads to political,economic and social goals for agricultural anti-poverty park development.This paper places emphasis on how multiple capital input accelerates agricultural anti-poverty park construction and development,how local governments promotes the park construction and development,and how local governments exercise corporation governance in order to realize various goals.Based on the empirical research results,this paper breaks up the variable of capital in agricultural anti-poverty parks into policy capital,financial capital and social capital,and the development goals of parks in the background of multiple capital input into political goals,economic goals and social goals.The paper,referring to academic research results such as local state corporatism and corporation of local governments,attempts to explore in the current policy context of poverty alleviation,why multidimensional goal-driven,corporation governance-based local governments,against the background of multiple capital input,would abandon developmentalism and pursue unity of development and order instead,and reconstruct rural order.Finally,We find that the multiple capital input was the foundation of the construction and development of the agricultural anti-poverty parks,also,which laid the foundation for corporation governance and the reconstruction of the rural order in the agricultural anti-poverty parks.Based on the current pressure-oriented system,in order to realize various goals,such as political,economic and social goal,the local government has adopted the "corporate governance" strategy,namely "agricultural anti-poverty parks corporation governance" strategy;The reconstruction of the local order only is the"additional consequences" and "unintended consequences" in the process of the anti-poverty agricultural parks' construction and development.This research has both practical and theoretical significances.In terms of practice,this research helps to improve the governance mechanism of agricultural anti-poverty parks through case studies in the paper,and promote the development of agricultural parks and poverty alleviation causes;besides,this research provides references for rural social governance at large,and for reconstruction of rural order in the background of market transformation.With regard to the theoretical perspective,this paper discovers and summarizes experience of agricultural anti-poverty park governance,studies and analyzes problems and future development areas of relevant anti-poverty mechanisms,which helps to reveal general rules of poverty issues,and improve anti-poverty theories.Moreover,the research studies local governments' actions receiving anti-poverty resources as well as their influences on reconstruction of rural order,and contributes to enrichment of rural governance theories.
Keywords/Search Tags:development and order, agricultural anti-poverty park, capital input, corporation governance, rural order
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