村民自治的问题背景及研究意义

On the Question Setting and Research Significance of Village Self-governance

村民自治之所以成为近些年国内政治学界研究的热点,除了我国政治学研究视域和方法拓展的原因,还在于其内含的广泛而深刻的问题背景。作为一个发展中的社会主义大国,我国在民主政治建设过程中面临着三个基本命题:在人民民主中坚持党的领导、协调不同层级民主权威之间的关系、解决政治发展与传统政治文化之间的矛盾。而村民自治恰恰为国内政治学界研究这些命题提供了一个可以观察,甚至可以实践的现实载体。从这层意义上说,村委会和村党支部、村委会和乡镇政府、宗族文化和公民文化之间关系的研究意义已经远远超越了村民自治的范畴。

The reason why village self-governance becomes a research focus in domestic political science in recent years lies in its extensive and profound question background besides the expansion of research perspective and methods. As a developing socialist country, our country is facing three basic propositions in the process of the construction of socialist democracy: to adhere to the leadership of the party in the people's democracy; to coordinate the relationship between the different levels of democratic authority; to solve the contradiction between the traditional political culture and political development. Village self-governance can provide a realistic carrier which can be observed and practiced for domestic politics research on these propositions. In this sense, the significance of research on the relationship between the village committee and party branch, the village committee and township-government, clan culture and villagers' relationship is beyond the scope of the villager self-governance.