乡贤群体参与现代乡村治理的政治逻辑与机制构建

The Political Logic and Mechanism Construction of the Rural Elite Participate in the Modern Rural Governance

乡贤参与甚至主导乡村治理的局面在我国有着悠久的历史,并在稳定乡村社会秩序和协助国家统治方面发挥着独特的功效。改革开放以来,随着人民公社威权模式的解体和乡村精英群体的流出,乡村治理陷入内生权威缺乏和外生权威弱化的双重困境。社会利益结构的深度调整和利益关系日趋复杂,更让现代乡村治理面临前所未有的挑战。当代乡贤以其特殊身份在传统与现代、乡村与城市之间架起一座沟通的桥梁。复兴和重构乡贤文化并鼓励他们积极参与现代乡村治理,对于优化和丰富当下农村社会治理的资源结构,促进社会贤达和社会体系的有机融合具有重要意义。同时,也必须在道德和法律层面构建相应的约束机制,防范乡贤在乡村治理中走向人治和发生腐败的风险。

The situation of rural elite participated in even lead rural governance in China has a long history, and it plays a unique effect in maintaining a stable rural social order and assisting the national governance. Rural governance caught in a dilemma of absent internal authority and weak ex- ternal authority, with the outflow of rural elite and the disintegration of the people＇ s commune authoritarian model since the reform and opening up. The deep adjustment of social interest structure and more complex of interest relation make more challenge to the modern rural governance. Contemporary rural elite build a communication bridge depend on their special status, between tradition and modern, city and country. Revival and reconstruction the rural elite culture and encourage them to actively participate in the modern rural governance, it has important significance to enrich and optimize the current rural social governance, and promote the organic integration of community leaders and social system. At the same time, it must prevent the rural elite work to dictatorship and corruption in governance by the corresponding restriction mechanism construction in moral and legal level.