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| Supervision down to the Countryside and the Dilemma of Grassroots Governance |
| He Xuefeng1 Zheng Xiaoyuan2 |
| 1.School of Sociology， Wuhan University， Wuhan 430072；2.Chinese Rural Governance Research Center， Huazhong University of Science and Technology， Wuhan 430074 |
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Abstract After the abolition of the agricultural tax， the state began to transfer a large number of payments to rural areas. In order to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the implementation of state transfer payments， the state’s power has entered the grassroots in all directions by supervision down to the countryside. Grassroots governance has the characteristics of the specificity of governance objects， the triviality and irregularity of governance affairs， the contingency of governance events， the limitation of governance resources， and the particularity of grassroots governance itself. These characteristics are contrary to the top-down supervision， which requires norms， procedures and standardization. Supervision down to the countryside encounters the characteristics of grassroots governance， forming the current dilemma of grassroots governance. The solution to the current dilemma of grassroots governance is to re-understand the characteristics of grassroots governance practices， adjust supervision methods， retain grassroots qualifications， and promote the modernization of grassroots governance.
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Received: 18 March 2021
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2021, Vol. 60 
