Research On The Weakness Of Citizen Participation In Urban Community Governance In China

Communities exist as cell of the society.The precondition of community for good governance is reform and innovation.The third plenary session of the 18 th central committee of CPC has put forward that innovate community management must realize and safeguard the interests of the people,improve the level of community governance,and build a community of community of peaceful and healthy security.Nowadays,Citizens participation has been increasingly valued in community construction across the country.With the development of productive forces and the awakening of civic awareness,more and more citizens want to engage in the management of Community Affairs.However,some scholars point out that the ability of community citizens to participate in community governance has not been fully developed.Citizen participation in community governance is the embodiment of democracy at the grassroots level while it is also a vital factor of community construction and urbanization.The traditional government-led community governance model can't be adapted to the needs of the new management system anymore.In China,the administration system of urban communities has not been perfected and the overall mode of government-led community has not changed fundamentally.With the awaken of civic consciousness,the citizens require to break the old system of community governance and build the new one which needs the governing subject to be changed.To realize civil participation of governance in urban communities,we must deal with the following problems.That is who is community leader what is the guarantee for citizens' participation in community governance and how to promote the participation of citizens.Participation motivation is the key to citizen participation in urban community governance.Incentive theory,governance theory and discussion on system dynamics theory are the theoretical support of dynamic problems of citizen participation in urban community support.These theories objectively require a combination of democratic governance and civic participation which means Citizens and the government working together in community governance.The theory of citizen city community governance emerges endlessly and the research of this paper is based on it.Through reading extensive literature review and researches,and by using the being and ought to be analysis,paper has concludes the real condition and found its gap of the ought to be condition.This gap is caused by three factors.Those are institutional factors,interests and social identity factors.In the following sections,paper has discussed the reasonability of ways to improve the condition.This paper especially discussed the solution of engage the Citizens to participate in community governance and stated how institutional factors,interests and social identity factors affect them.According to it,paper proposed corresponding methods and carries out demonstration.As a result,paper found that through optimizing the institutional environment of citizen participation in urban community governance,rationalizing the interests of citizen participation in urban community governance and improving citizen's sense of community identity,ultimately,the incentive for citizens to participate in urban community governance will be strengthened.