Research On The Influence Of Village Social Capital On Village Collective Action

Nowadays,the rural economy is developing,the income of rural households is increasing,and the infrastructure is constantly improving.However,the public affairs such as farmland water conservancy and ecological environment are generally declining,resulting in the "development paradox".Every field involved in agricultural and rural development suffers from the decline of collective action capacity.Village collective is the most important platform with subjectivity in docking national resources,breaking the dilemma of public affairs management and stimulating the enthusiasm of farmers.Reactivating village collectives,organizing farmers,and giving play to village collectives’ ability to reorganize and redistribute resources has become the key to break the dilemma of collective action.Village social capital,as the ability of the village to form the internal order,has a strong public nature and is an effective way to realize village collective action.Therefore,it is of great significance to study how village social capital affects village collective action from the perspective of village meso.This paper regards village social capital as the mechanism to improve village collective action,and analyzes two problems: first,how to measure village social capital;Second,what is the effect of social capital on village collective action? At the theoretical level,the index system is established by combining the embedding theory,social capital theory and collective action theory,and the factor analysis and cluster analysis are used to measure and describe the characteristics of village social capital,so as to construct the theoretical analysis framework of "social capital-action path-collective action".At the empirical level,this paper firstly combs the survey data of 13,540 households in 228 villages in the CLDS database in 2016,analyzes the evolution characteristics of village social structure,and further explores the current situation of the formation of village social capital and the characteristics of village social capital.Secondly,based on the characteristics of village social structure,the heterogeneity of village social capital is tested by cluster analysis.Finally,the two-column model is used to verify the effect and mechanism of village social capital on village collective action.Based on the background of village social structure transformation,this paper puts forward some policy suggestions from the aspects of improving village social capital and promoting village collective action ability.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows:(1)Village social capital stock is relatively high,and there are different degrees of differentiation.But at present,the proportion of collective action of village organizations is low,and the level of collective action of village organizations is not high.(2)The mean value of social trust within the village gradually decreases with the spread of geography and consanguinity;The interior of the village is familiar with the situation of public security is better;Farmers’ dependence on agricultural production has decreased;The relationship between farmers and their relatives and friends is significantly higher than that between non-relatives and friends.There are still few social organizations in the village and fewer cultural and festival activities.(3)Village social capital has a significant positive impact on whether the village organizes collective action and the degree of collective action organization.Village social trust and social network have significant positive influence on village collective action organization and organization degree.Village belonging has no significant effect on the organization of collective action,but has a significant positive effect on the organization degree of collective action.Organizational participation has no significant effect on the organization and degree of collective action in villages.Therefore,it is of practical significance to promote village collective action to cultivate social capital inside the village,give full play to the incentive role of social capital in the village,pay attention to the publicity of long-term interests of collective action,and pay attention to the leading role of village cadres.