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Research On Chinese Rural Community Governance Of A Ethnic Townships Under The Changed Social Capital Perspective

Posted on:2017-05-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Q LongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330503482962Subject:Public Management
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In China, the ethnic township has same situation, social capital is changing and degrading. Especially, the bonding social capital has altered a lot with the reform performing in the Chinese ethnic township. But, now the bonding social capitals are changed and damaged due to the urbanization, economization and public policy. The‘old ’social capitals are faulted and ‘new’ social capitals aren’t built. Changing rural social capitals bring the opportunities and challenges for the ethnic township govern.The ethnic township is an important part of Chinese community. There are many traditional social capitals which are unique regional and national character in the ethnic monitory area where are original small villages. Study force on the Chinese ethnic villages that are rarely been concerned special group.Most of ethnic villages are the poorest villages in China.In this paper, describe social capitals changing and analyze the reason why social capital would be changed by events and cases in the Chinese ethnic township. Based on social capital theory and governance theory, this paper analyzes the mutual relationship between social capital and community governance in rural areas, from the perspective of social capital, to seek the solution of rural community governance.This paper uses the quantitative methodology. A Ethnic Township is used as a study case. The data and information collected through the depth semi-structured interview and document review and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analytical method. There are twenty-six interviewees participated the study which is from A Ethnic Township. For the factors predicted to change social capital in ethnic villages. The analysis found that with the development of society, coupled with the impact of external economic and social deepening of the modern community governance, traditional clan trust-based rural social capital is destroyed and homogenous relationships are faded. But the modern formal rulers and legal systems areunperfected in the area. There are some dilemmas of social capital, such as the fault and absence of social capital, the conflict between the traditional social capital and the new social capital.Finally, from the perspective of the change of social capital, the author analyzes the reasons of causing trouble, according to community governance model, community governance body and the community governance system construction to puts forward the solving measures. Overall, the evidence suggests that ethnic villages’ managers should change their traditional ideas and pay attention to the development of civil society organizations, establish and improve relevant laws, that to provide protection for the development of civil society organizations, relying on non-governmental organizations to protect the quality of social capital. Second,the grass roots government should keep the human-oriented and mass line to respect traditional culture. They should use the flexible way and social capital to govern ethnic villages. Third,developed educational and optimized industrial structures are good for attract rural elite.Government should encourage the rural elite to participate in community governance.The last one, in the ethnic villages, construction of socialism core values is important to villagers. Grass-roots government cultivates and improves the social norms. Community governance accords the principle of adaptation to local conditions to protect social capital; government accords the law to govern the ethnic village which can reduce the corruption. Ethnic township government through these measures reshapes the rural social capital and solves the social capital dilemma of community governance.
Keywords/Search Tags:social capital, social capital changes, ethnic village, community governance
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