The Logic Of The Collective Action For Countryside Residents' Rights Protection

Chinese peasant group bear a very heavy pressure in resent years. The process of urbanization gives great impact to rural areas in political, economic, cultural and other areas. The old order of the countryside has been broken, and the new order has not yet been completely established. As the result, the social conflicts in rural areas are increasingly sharp. Its performance is the number of emergent group incident and collectively appeal increased year by year and become a major social problem. In that way, how these collective rights of action happened? What is the logic of these Collective rights of action? Investigation of these questions will help us to re-recognize the generation mechanism and action logic for collective rights of action in today's China. This has important realistic meaning and directive significance.2002, Q historic site renovation project needs levy land, the adjacent Bei Huai small village group is asked to removel more than 50 households. But the resettlement standards promulgated by the government can not meet the actual needs of the villagers. This event becomes a fuse of these collective rights of action. The first action of Bei Huai villagers through the "election of village representatives," but this manner didn't get a good result. Finally, there are still six villagers did not get the required homestead. After fruitless negotiations with subdistrict office, these six villagers start a collectively appeal action. Every member of this group is very rational; their actions include combined with other members, quit the group are all based on the rational.We can see that there are two stages of this collective right of action. The frist stage is manifested through the election of a"in-system"of the right of action. While the second stage is "outside the system," the collective appeal action. And the whole process of this collective rights of action shows up a "weak organization, strong rational" form. Each person in this group has a strong rational, but not blind obedience. These reasons make the performance of the collective rights of action to be a weak organization.From the current research can be seen, the academic circles pay more attention to the collective action which organizations are often stronger, larger, longer duration, but not these collective action of small scale, weak organization. But in fact, these collective actions are the normality of the Chinese collective rights of action. Many collective rights of action due to Land expropriation, house removing belongs to this category. This "weak organization, strong rational" collective action has the characteristics of long duration; and the appeal of these collective action is more complicated. If not effectively persuasion and adjusting, this type of collective action tends to be very complicated. And this type of collective organization is weak, its members may lead to even more extreme case when their demands is not satisfied, resulting in heavily impact on society. Our government should be pay more attention to these collective rights of actions. Take more positive mental attitude to find out people's appeal, used more effective way to resolve conflicts, instead of the means of avoidance and suppress.