乡贤理事会的组织特征及其治理机制——基于清远市农村乡贤理事会的考察

Organizational features and governance mechanism of village sage council: Based on the investigation of village sage council in Qingyuan

基于广东清远市九龙镇乡贤理事会治村实践的考察发现:在传统宗族文化浓厚的若干自然村落,其乡贤理事会作为一种非正式的社会组织,通过"长老(村长)+房头"的组织架构、"私对私"的集体行动逻辑以及民主治理机制,有效地激活了"有主体"的村民自治,从而为完善基层治理提供了一条可能的路径。

Based on the study of the village governance process by village sage council in Jiulong Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong province, this paper finds that in some natural villages with strong traditional clan culture, the village sage council, an informal social organization, working under the organization structure of village head cooperating with the head of family branch, acting with individual vs. individual logic, implementing with substantive democracy, effectively activates the subjectivity of peasants＇ participation in villager autonomy and provides a possible path to improving the grass-roots governance.