“治理”视野内的农村制度变迁——对中国农村改革的再思考

“扩大农民自主权”是农村初始改革的关键起点。从“治理”的视角出发考察农村2 0年制度变迁 ,认为改革在历史的进程中建构着一条“自我强化”的路径。即“扩大农民自主权”与“治理转型”的互赖过程 :( 1 )通过国家权力向社会的回归而形成农民自我治理的发展 ;( 2 )经治理的传递性而促使国家层面的治理变迁。因此 ,“路径依赖”

Experiential Logic in the Transformation of Contemporary China’s Social Governance

How does Chinese society maintain its orderly operation and show stability and harmony to the utmost while China rapidly transforms its economic system and international circumstances become increasingly complicated?This is an important question that this essay tries to answer,and the analysis mainly involves the exploratory practice of the transformation of Chinese social governance.This exploratory practice is a process through which China constantly breaks through the traditional blockades of vested interests,overcomes newly formed challenges,and forms a new Chinese-style“one axis and multiple components”pattern of social governance during its rapid re-establishment of both social relationship structure and social psychology order on the unbalanced and insufficient conditions of development within its vast territory.During this process,the constant return to the CPC’s mass line,as well as the“mechanism of reversed transmission of pressure,”the“anticipation-led mechanism”and the“mechanism of turning crisis into opportunity”that the CPC has improved during its long-term revolutionary struggles and its deepening of reform and opening-up,has played an important part.The simplistic duplication of Western theoretical analytic paradigms cannot explain the experiential mechanism for the transformation of social governance,which is peculiar to China.The creation of research framework of“system and life”is just an effort for comparison and dialogues with Western classical theories.It is not only helpful for the development of sociology about Chinese transformation,but will provide new knowledge for worldwide social transformation.

The Social Governance Community in Transforming Neighborhoods:A Spatial Reconstruction Perspective

The strategies of rapid urbanization and rural revitalization have fostered the emergence of transforming neighborhoods. Using a framework integrating multiple spatial attributes that embeds the administrative nature of space in its social nature and raises the level of its governance, this paper provides theoretical generalizations for the social governance communities of transforming neighborhoods on the basis of a typology that divides them into four types: social governance communities of individually constructed neighborhoods, social governance communities in post-demolition constructed neighborhoods, social governance communities in immigrant constructed neighborhoods, and social governance communities in collectively constructed neighborhoods. Social governance communities of transforming neighborhoods emerge in the course of spatial reconstruction and redevelopment of production. At the stage of space reconstruction, the administrative nature of space plays its part in developing differentiated spatial governance features, while the social nature of space takes effect through the establishment of four types of social governance community social networks: the loosely connected network, the multiple components network, the close interest network and the highly associated network. At the stage of space production, the social nature of space is embedded in governance and takes effect through the integration of top-down administrative control and bottom-up resident autonomy. Consequently, we see the generation of four governance strategies of administration that adjust the autonomy of social governance communities: 'control-superficial governance,' 'guidance-deliberative governance,' 'support-collaborative governance,' and 'leading-governance by the people.' In terms of theory, this study conducts a theoretical dialogue with the existing 'controlled autonomy' and 'autonomy with administrative elimination,' and in terms of practice, it has implications for strengthening popular rule by neighborhood social governance communities and filling the ability gap in such communities.

Confession Governance and Verdicts in China's Criminal Justice

The objective phenomenon of reliance on confessions is the source of many problems in the practice of criminal justice in China. Although successive amendments to the law have endeavored to improve the handling of confessions, they have been unable to resolve the dilemma of a rigid management mode, incompatible management strategies, and conflicting attitudes towards management. This paper has made a multi-dimensional reinterpretation of it from the judges＇ perspective, including functional analysis, cultural interpretation and immediate considerations. It reveals that behind its functions of offering moral comfort or allowing evasion of responsibility, confession, as a medium of physical and intellectual management, has the more important function of supplementing and improving the legitimacy of criminal verdicts. The remolding of the legitimacy of criminal verdicts with the coordinated improvement of the management of confessions will change the mode of association between those who currently govern confession and those they govern and will clash with the current closed mode of criminal justice management, thereby promoting a transformation in the governance of criminal justice.