Self-governance Theory Of The Multi-center Study Of The Problem

Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for her analysis on economic governance of the commons in 2009. She conducted polycentric self-governing model research on the issue of the possession of common pool resources (CPR), which beyond the governing pale both of market and government. Elinor Ostrom regarded that the solutions for the issue of the CPR possession is the owner to establish a self-organization and design the rules. Under this system restricts, which all participants obtained more good outcomes than to act independently.The polycentric self-governing theory is the third way to analyze CPR, which makes clear not only the successful institutional factors in the public governance of CPR, but also the lack of regimens in ineffective governance. As soon as the theory developed, it aroused the attentions of educational circles and government circles. Then China introduced the theory. However, whether it is feasible to explain China's governance pattern of CPR? Suppose it dose, facing the background of Chinese society (the power penetration of China's upper society and the autonomy expansion of grassroots local government's reality), whether the theory will vary or distort in the course of application? If the theory indeed varies and distort, what is the cause? What we have to focus on in the process of applying it to China's situation? Those are worth to investigate.Considering the above questions, the paper's basic frame is formed. The idea of this paper is based on the academic recognition of the polycentric self-governing theory. Even though it is workable academically, the ideological origin and social context need further analysis, and then, to discuss the application conditions and theoretic boundaries. Consequently, the paper is rethinking the feasibility of the theory in China academic. According to the survey and analysis of theory's development in China, focus on the slightly variation and give the innovative explanation of it, and provide the reference for the reform of China's public governance.The paper divides into five main chapters. The core of first part is discussing the clue of the article, the research methods and the main difficulties. The second part is the discussion on polycentric self-governing theory of Elinor Ostrom. In this, the paper tries to emphasize exactly and comprehensively on its ideological origin and theory context, and to redress the erroneous transformation and distortions in the process of theory's development. The third part analyzes the application of the theory in the Chinese society, and explains the causes of variation and distortion in the course of the theory's application. The fourth part searches for the deep-seated reasons of theory's variation and distortion in the process of its development in China. According the principle of academic explaining, the article analysis the influence factors and the mechanism. The fifth part tries to advance the thought of the study.The academic contributions of this paper are:First, trying to renew the theory in the progress of its development in China, getting clear its original sample in the academic field; second, putting the factors of the distortions in the process of theory's development in China, that is, the theory's incompleteness and the inadequate dual structure of Chinese government and society; then to discuss the function mechanism of the factors of the theory's variation and distortion in the first step; third, combining with Chinese realities, analyzed the situation of the different interests groups because the fracture between Chinese government and society, and then to discuss the problems of different interest groups coordination under the diversity social structure in the academic meaning, to provide the academic thinking of the Chinese society autonomy.