Grassroots multiple interactive governance has become a development trend in rural grass-roots social governance.In rural grassroots governance,the government should take the lead,party organizations and leaders joint...Grassroots multiple interactive governance has become a development trend in rural grass-roots social governance.In rural grassroots governance,the government should take the lead,party organizations and leaders jointly participate,social organizations provide a platform,villagers give play to their awareness of being the master,and village committees coordinate the organization and participation,take meeting public interests and achieving good governance as the goals and public affairs multi-party participation and democratic consultation as the starting points,to promote the overall harmonious development of rural society.展开更多
This paper focuses on the bridge council and free ferry services as the private organizers of public infrastructure construction in the Qing Dynasty, uncovers the legal entity ownership system and governance model wit...This paper focuses on the bridge council and free ferry services as the private organizers of public infrastructure construction in the Qing Dynasty, uncovers the legal entity ownership system and governance model with China's native origin, and reveals the attributes and characteristics of ownership by legal entities in China's traditional era. Bridge councils and free ferry services are non-profit and non-government public-interest institutions, whose members were elected by local communities. These councils were responsible for the fundraising, construction, and long-term maintenance and operation of public facilities and infrastructure at the grassroots level. They adopted open and transparent management procedures and could coordinate cross-jurisdictional affairs and mediate disputes. They possessed independent assets such as lands and fund reserves, and such exclusive legal-entity ownership received protection from the government and under the laws. Such form of legal-entity ownership provided the institutional foundation for the development of clans, temples, charitable groups, academies of classical learning, and various associations and societies. These self-organizing groups demonstrate remarkable mobilization and organizational capabilities and institutional creativity of civil society in traditional China. They served as a link between the government and communities and played a unique and active role in maintaining social order at the grassroots level.展开更多
基金Supported by Scientific Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial Education Department(18SB0821)Soft Science Project of Yibin City(2012RY015).
文摘Grassroots multiple interactive governance has become a development trend in rural grass-roots social governance.In rural grassroots governance,the government should take the lead,party organizations and leaders jointly participate,social organizations provide a platform,villagers give play to their awareness of being the master,and village committees coordinate the organization and participation,take meeting public interests and achieving good governance as the goals and public affairs multi-party participation and democratic consultation as the starting points,to promote the overall harmonious development of rural society.
文摘This paper focuses on the bridge council and free ferry services as the private organizers of public infrastructure construction in the Qing Dynasty, uncovers the legal entity ownership system and governance model with China's native origin, and reveals the attributes and characteristics of ownership by legal entities in China's traditional era. Bridge councils and free ferry services are non-profit and non-government public-interest institutions, whose members were elected by local communities. These councils were responsible for the fundraising, construction, and long-term maintenance and operation of public facilities and infrastructure at the grassroots level. They adopted open and transparent management procedures and could coordinate cross-jurisdictional affairs and mediate disputes. They possessed independent assets such as lands and fund reserves, and such exclusive legal-entity ownership received protection from the government and under the laws. Such form of legal-entity ownership provided the institutional foundation for the development of clans, temples, charitable groups, academies of classical learning, and various associations and societies. These self-organizing groups demonstrate remarkable mobilization and organizational capabilities and institutional creativity of civil society in traditional China. They served as a link between the government and communities and played a unique and active role in maintaining social order at the grassroots level.
