The Establish And The Survival Logical Of The Homeowner Committees’ Associations

With the continuous violations and homeowners action for rights occurred in unban communities in the context of global association revolution, not only the owners’committee that on behalf of "civil society harbinger" has gained greater development, but a number of homeowner committees’associations has quietly sprouted. Then, the homeowner committees’ associations are seen as the commonwealth of grassroots organizations, does the emergence of them means civil society development to a new stage in China? Under the political ecology of "stability prority", how homeowner committees’associations to achieve a breakthrough in China? Its establishment and development should attributed to concessions of national power in the public domain, or personal success strategies of grassroots elites? This article will answer these questions based on comparative study comes from multiple cases. On the one hand, the nature of homeowner committees’associations is individual grassroots elites’ machiavellian strategies to achieve their goals. The organization packaging of associations actually causes the lack of internal legality, and this plight of associations makes elites pay more attention to obtain the permission and approval of government in order to obtain external legality. On the other hand, although there may be maintain a fragile and mutually beneficial relationship between the homeowner committees’associations and government (especially local government) under the authoritarian state. However, the pressure rooted strict registration and licensing system of dual management system is always a insurmountable obstacle for these organizations to obtain external legality. It is a common effect of the internal difficulity and external pressure result a series of actions strategies taken by associations to in response to the crisis of legitimacy, and ultimately shape the unique logic of survival of homeowner committees’associations.