The Study On Power Obtaining And Legitimacy Of Village Cadres

Rural grassroots democracy plays a very important role on rural economic and socialdevelopment.The superior government, village cadres, and the rural villagers are the mainparticipants to rural grassroots politics. They directly affect the rural political construction.The study on power obtaining and legitimacy of village leaders is very important to ruralgrassroots democracy, and it also fits in goals of Chinese rural construction and developmentof politics.Based on the social exchange theory and by the methods of "analysis of progress-incident", this article analysis the social exchange theory logic behind the power obtainingand legitimacy of W village leaders. The finding by analysis is that the future trend of powerobtaining mechanisms of rural village leaders is to rationalization. And we can also find someproblems in the rural grassroots democratic construction, such as the defects of theimplementation of the law and rural democratic culture atmosphere. We think that it shouldestablish sound policy and laws, strengthen the construction of the rural economy and create arelaxed democratic environment to solve these problems. According to the objectiverequirement of the development of socialist democratic politics, it should explore andestablish more effective ways to promote the rural grassroots democracy and make theself-government of the villagers as the essential way of improving people’s livelihood andtheir living standards, and establish the socialist democracy at the grassroots level with aChinese characteristic.This article has three parts. In the first part it describes the background of the research,indicates the purpose and significance of this research, introduces the research object, method,content, theoretical basis and innovation point together with the literature review. In thesecond part, according to the partition in sociology and politics field of the development ofrural grassroots political stages-initial stage, normative stage and deepening stage, it focusesthe function and characteristics of the social exchange logic in each stage. At the last part,combining with the theory of social exchange theory, it analyses the logic and trend of the power acquisition and legalization of the village cadres in W village. Connecting with thepractical problems, it puts forward some suggestions and countermeasures at the end of thisarticle.