Nature of Property Right， Economic Development and Village Democracy——A Holistic Interpretation of Coopetition of Triadic Logic
Jiang Hongjun Zhang Dong
1.Public Administration School， Guangzhou University， Guangzhou 510006； 2.School of Social and Public Administration， The Western Research Base of Sociology，Chongqing Technology and Business University， Chongqing 400067
Abstract：The modernization of rural grassroots governance in China depends on the effective operation of villagers’ autonomy， the core of which lies in the development of high-quality village democracy. Based on the village sample of CLDS 2014 and the unique ownership structure of the village， this paper examines the impacts of economic development on four major types of democracy at village level. The results show that， the average annual income of village households and non-agricultural employment ratio have significant and negative impacts on democratic elections. Meanwhile， the average annual income of village households， non-agricultural employment ratio， village collective income， and village collective expenditure have significant and positive impacts on villages’ democratic management and supervision. These reveal that economic development with different nature of property rights has a differentiation effect on village democracy. Private interest-oriented economic development at village level is negatively related to democratic elections. All dimensions of economic development are not related to democratic decision-making， but positively related to democratic management and supervision. As a result， in village societies with different ownership structures， the coopetition of social integration logic， individual rights logic and collective action logic will determine the impact of economic development on different aspects of village democracy. In the future， rural governance should take advantage of the unique advantages of rural ownership structure， and focus on collective economic development and public engineering construction in order to strengthen the public interest of villages. Besides， rural governance should respond to villagers’ demand for democratic management and supervision， and deepen the connection between democracy and governance by means of consultative democracy and other forms. Consequently， the plight of village governance with high transparency and low democracy will be resolved.
2020, Vol. 59 
