Linking the State and Farmers： Party Building， Administrative Embedding and Grassroots Elections——An Empirical Analysis Based on the Fight against Poverty Project
Zhang Jingxian Meng Tianguang
(School of Social Science， Tsinghua University， Beijing 100084)
Abstract：Poverty alleviation serves as a strategic initiative to enhance the grassroots governance by the Party building， in the process of which the Party， government and rural society interact with each other， thereby profoundly influencing the grassroots elections. According to the analytical framework of the tripartite interaction among the Party， government and rural society， the resource input， administrative embedding， and Party building are identified as three mechanisms for the poverty alleviation to exert its influence on the grassroots elections. Based on data from the 2018 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey and employing a continuous difference-difference design to conduct the effect evaluation， this study has found that the poverty alleviation program generally increases the voter turnout in grassroots elections， which has a political effect on promoting the democratic governance in villages. Mechanism analysis reveals that the poverty alleviation decreases the voter turnout to some extent through the mechanisms of resource input and administrative embedding， while significantly increasing the turnout through the mechanism of Party building， and the intermediary effect of Party building is more substantial than the former two. In conclusion， the Party building in poverty alleviation plays a pivotal role in linking the state and farmers， and effectively drives the grassroots democratic governance.
张竞衔 孟天广. 链接国家与农民：政党建设、行政嵌入与基层选举——基于脱贫攻坚的实证研究[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2024, 63(3): 63-76.
Zhang Jingxian Meng Tianguang. Linking the State and Farmers： Party Building， Administrative Embedding and Grassroots Elections——An Empirical Analysis Based on the Fight against Poverty Project. journal1, 2024, 63(3): 63-76.
2024, Vol. 63 
