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Non-Governance Elite And Village Development

Posted on:2009-04-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360272488649Subject:Sociology
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Research of the rural elite of China in transformation period gradually becomes a hot issue in the rural research field. But, there is rare discussion of non-governance elite group in numerous achievements. Different from governance elite who is authorized formally, non-governance elite attributes endogenetic authority, which comes out of self-identity to mutual culture and interests' bounding of village community. It is exactly this kind of particularity; this paper shows the necessary to investigate thoroughly non-governance elite's structure and their functions played in the village development.This paper adopts a mode of in-depth description through survey of daily life and events in the case village. Firstly, the origin of endogenetic authority from non-governance elite's inner-side and their types, characteristics of this group are discussed. The next part tries to probe into the non-governance elite's functions and deficiencies in the village's development through analyzing some important events. Finally, this paper prospects the relation between non-governance and the development of the village.The key of the non-governance ability lies in the existence of village community memory and character, which are the base of this research. This paper takes the main influence that non-governance elite possesses different preponderant resources as the standard, divides it into three kinds—economic elites, knowledge elites and social elites. Social elite includes retired old man, predecessor village cadre and activists. As the whole, the structure of the non-governance in the case village is intricate and idiographic. They are tiny and trifling, but play indispensable roles in the process of a declining 'empty shell village' transit to an inner dynamic and energetic developing 'new countryside building demonstration pilot project' in this case. This foundation can be named as 'the combined promotion of elite', which reflects during the process of bringing about an advance in the village's economy, realizing the effective supply of public goods and participating in the village administration. Some deficiencies are also emerging, such as non-governance's life-facing, self-conducted organizing ability and the difficulty in conformity.It is essential that proceeding with the village community's memory and character, offering multi-kind of authorities to the villagers to choose and combining the motive force of the villagers to realizing the sustainable development of the village. How to motivate more non-governance elite to participate in the village development and overcome all above-mentioned deficiencies, depend on a better villagers' autonomy system, and even further completion of national political and economic systems innovation , and so to get the result of well-governing.
Keywords/Search Tags:non-governance elite, the combined promotion of elite, village development
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