乡村婚俗改革合力的形成:政府干预边界与政策工具协同——基于一个全国婚俗改革实验区的案例研究

The Joint Formation of Rural Marriage Customs Reform:the Boundary of Government Intervention and the Coordination of Policy Tools——A case study based on a national experimental area of marriage customs reform

天价彩礼等婚俗问题已从私人事务演化为公共问题,从公众议程进入政策议程,需要政府采用合理有效的政策工具来推进婚俗改革。移风易俗历来阻力重重,单纯依靠社会的自省、自觉、自治很难达到预期的改革成效,政府的干预势在必行,其中的关键则在于干预尺度和方式及其所决定的政策工具选择问题,难点在于不同的政策工具如何实现协同发力。基于全国首批婚俗改革实验区中河间市的个案研究发现,通过基层政府与社会各界努力意愿与行动的密切衔接,自愿性、混合性、强制性政策工具可各尽其能、融合发力,从而实现乡村婚俗的显著变迁。

The marriage custom issues such as the priceless bride price have evolved from private affairs to public issues,and have entered the policy agenda from the public agenda.The government needs to a-dopt reasonable and effective policy tools to promote the reform of marriage customs.There have always been many obstacles to changing customs.It is difficult to achieve the expected reform results simply by relying on social self-examination,self-consciousness and self-control.The government’s intervention is imperative.The key lies in the scale and method of intervention and the choice of the policy tools decided by them.The difficulty lies in how to achieve coordination between different policy tools.Based on the case study of Hejian,one of the first group of experimental areas for marriage customs reform in China,it is found that through the close connection between the grass-roots government and the willingness and ac-tion of all sectors of society,voluntary,mixed and mandatory policy tools can do their best to achieve sig-nificant changes in rural marriage customs.