社区专项经费与居民参与提升——一个“资金权属”的分析视角

Community Funds and Improvements in Social Participation:A Perspective from Fund Ownership

居民参与意愿低是我国城市社区治理中亟需解决的一个难题,尤其是有些社区虽然具备充足的社区发展专项经费,但居民参与治理的意愿仍然不足。鉴于成都的“公服资金”在调动居民参与社区治理方面有很多成功案例,本文对此进行研究并发现,相比于资金来源,资金权属对激发居民参与解决社区治理问题起到了更为基础性的作用。因此,建立属于社区“共同共有”的经费,有助于改变居民的认知、行为以及情感,培养居民“共有的惯习”,进而提升居民的参与意愿,形成“共治”的格局。

The low participation rate is an urgent governance problem facing urban communities in China.Previous studies have considered the funding source the root cause of this problem.After analyzing several successful cases in Chengdu,this paper finds that fund ownership,which drew rare attention from prior research,plays a more crucial role in stimulating residents’participation than does the funding source.It is helpful to establish fund“co-ownership”by community residents to change residents’views,behavior,and emotion,cultivate their habitus,and thus enhance their willingness to community participation and achieve the goal of“co-governance”.