社区赋权会推动社区治理效能的提升吗?——基于苏州市3个社区的实证考察

Does Community Empowerment Promote Community Governance Effectiveness?——An Empirical Examination Based on Three Communities in Suzhou

在当前社会治理重心下沉过程中,社区赋权成为提升社区治理效能的政策工具之一并广泛付诸实践。文章采用多案例研究方法,发现社区赋权对于社区治理具有显著的影响,但是社区赋权行为并不必然带来社区治理效能的提升,能否提升主要取决于社区赋权的具体组织方式,以社区社会组织为主的社区赋权有助于提升社区治理的效果,但是以业委会和个体居民为主的赋权行为并没有带来治理效能的提高。社区赋权对社区治理的影响并不是直接产生的,而是通过影响社区居民的社区参与、社区结社和社区信任来对社区治理过程发生作用的。在这一过程中,社区参与、社区结社和社区信任三者相互影响,共同决定了社区治理的有效程度。本研究对构建有效的社区赋权、推动社区治理效能提升方面的政策制定具有重要的指导意义。

In the current process of decentralization of social governance,community empowerment has become one of the policy tools to enhance the effectiveness of community governance and has been widely put into practice.The article adopts a multi-case study approach and finds that community empowerment has a significant impact on community governance,but community empowerment does not necessarily lead to the improvement of community governance effectiveness,and the improvement depends mainly on the specific organization of community empowerment.Second,community empowerment has a positive impact on community governance.Second,the impact of community empowerment on community governance is not direct,but occurs through the community participation,community association,and community trust of community residents.In this process,community participation,community association,and community trust interact with each other to determine the degree of effective community governance.This study has implications for policy development in building effective community empowerment and promoting community governance effectiveness.