Rural Community Governance Research Articles

Intelligent vs. Cultural: Research on the path to improve the resilience of urban and rural community governance based on the AHP-FCE model

Community resilience is a core component of grassroots governance modernization, and community resilience shows different characteristics depending on the type of community. Existing research on community resilience mainly uses direct questionnaire data, relatively ignoring the differences in weights of various dimensions. Different categories of community resilience components play different roles in community resilience. Based on this, the study cited the logic of the AHP-FCE model and added objective data based on empowering resilience, thus making up for the model's shortcomings while giving full play to the model's advantages. The quantitative analysis of 353 questionnaires from five urban districts and five rural communities in the sample city was based on the community resilience evaluation model. In the current process of community resilience construction, there are typical problems of a lack of cultural resilience in urban community resilience construction and a need for more intelligent resilience in rural community resilience construction. The key to future community resilience construction is reconciling the relationship between cultural and intellectual resilience to solve the problem of targeting deviation in urban communities and rural community resilience construction. It is necessary to adhere to the spirit of “long-term construction” to build the cultural resilience of urban communities, implement the path of “digital empowerment” to make the intelligent resilience of rural communities, and adhere to the standard of “complete redundancy” to form an urban and rural community resilience governance mechanism gradually, and then Move towards more resilient urban and rural community governance and help realize the modernization of grassroots governance.

The Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities in Integrated Village Government (IVG)

Following the implementation of the Law of Village, the resolution of village government issues proved to be a challenging endeavour. This paper presents a comprehensive systematic analysis to identify themes in village government studies. The primary objective is categorising the problems and possibilities village governments encounter. The research data utilised in this study is obtained from the Scopus Database, covering the period from 2009 to 2023. The data is subsequently analysed using the VOSviewer tool. The findings present five prominent themes and a total of 35 network elements of the governance of rural communities. These themes encompassed many aspects, such as healthcare, economic matters, conflicts, agricultural practices, and government initiatives. The study revealed that despite implementing the Law on Villages, the prevalence of intricate challenges in village government remains prominent. Scholars concur that they advocate for establishing collaborative efforts among stakeholders to delineate the sequential problem-solving steps. However, it is worth noting that rural communities often face challenges in embracing external interactions and adopting the urban commons model to establish an extensive network and facilitate multi-level growth. The findings serve as a foundation for future investigations on village government and a point of reference for more informed decision-making in governance practices. The limits were due to the exclusive use of publications from Scopus for analysis. Hence, conducting research employing a comparative approach and leveraging the Web of Science (WoS) database and other indexes are crucial to promoting the conceptual progress of village government study

Impacts on Rural Community Development and Governance by Different Land Ownership: A Comparative Study Based on Two Villages in China

The capability of rural community governance is significantly impacted by the different types of land ownership when capital investment in rural tourism to achieve rural revitalisation. The outcomes of which profoundly affect sustainable rural development. This study, by utilising a theoretical framework using double movement theory, aims to assess the impacts on rural community governance by two different land ownership models, the Enterprise-based Model (EBM) and the Community-based Model (CBM), in the process of capital flow to the countryside (CFC). Case studies of the two villages were adopted to examine and explore the logic of interaction between stakeholders and reveal the internal mechanism of rural community governance. The results of this research indicate that the CBM has considerable advantages over the EBM. In the CBM, the village collective retains land ownership without fully marketising, which allows villagers to maintain their bargaining power with investors whilst increasing their local awareness. In the EBM, however, the local government promotes the conversion of land ownership. The villagers benefit more from one-time acquisition but lose sustainable benefits created by local development. Stakeholders call for the need to create a development model beyond the market economy by maintaining China's rural land system in the process of CFC. In this regard, this paper provides an original contribution.

A study of the driving factors of the intention and behavioral deviations of rural residents in waste classification

Introduction: The deviation between the stated intentions and actual actions of rural residents regarding waste classification constitutes a significant impediment to the effective implementation of environmental management strategies in rural areas. It is therefore recommended that steps be taken to reduce the deviation between the stated intentions and actual behaviors of rural residents. Doing so will help to reinforce environmental governance in rural communities and provide the necessary support for rural revitalization.Methods: This study establishes an analytical framework for examining the deviation between the internal perceived efficacy and external environmental policies among rural residents. The relationship between intention and behavior can be classified into three distinct scenarios: “intention with behavior,” “intention without behavior,” and “no intention with behavior.” Furthermore, an empirical analysis is conducted using survey data collected by Nanjing Agricultural University in the China Land Economic Survey in June and July 2021.Result: The results show that 1) the perceived efficacy has a significant positive influence on the deviation between the intention and behavior of rural residents in domestic waste classification, while the environmental policy has a significant negative effect on it; 2) the guiding policy has a significant negative moderating effect on the influence of perceived efficacy on the deviation between the intention and behavior of rural residents and the situation of “with intention and without behavior,” while the reward–punishment policy has a significant positive moderating effect on the influence of perceived efficacy on “without intention and behavior;” 3) the perceived efficacy has a masking effect on the impact of environmental policies on the deviation between the intention and behavior or “with intention and without behavior” of rural residents and a partial mediating effect on the impact of the environmental policy on “with intention and behavior” or “without intention and behavior.”Discussion: In consideration of these findings, the study proposes policy recommendations that emphasize the interconnectivity of the government, village collective organizations, and rural residents. The recommendations include the implementation of environmental policies and initiatives designed to enhance rural residents’ awareness of waste classification.

Governance for Sustainable Development in Peruvian High Andean Communities: Mediation of Attitude

Objective: The objective was to determine how governance explains sustainable development, mediated by attitude, in high Andean communities in Peru. Theoretical Framework: Few theories help to measure the levels of sustainable development at the community level, with little literature and evidence existing. The studies suggest applying transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, incorporating uncertainty, adaptive governance processes. Method: Applying the quantitative approach, surveying 385 rural community members, with a 51-item Likert-type questionnaire. The results are presented in frequency tables, ordinal regression and simple mediation model in SPSS. Results and Discussion: The results for governance are perceived as high in 68.1% of cases, attitude to development at a medium level in 49.9% and sustainable development at a medium level by 80.3%. Governance explains 52.6% of sustainable development and 41.6% of attitude to development, and attitude to development explains 65.7% of sustainable development, all significant, values calculated with Nagelkerke's Pseudo R box. The mediating effect of attitude to development is 10.13% between governance and sustainable development. Research Implications: The research provides results that can be applied to the governance of rural communities, so that they achieve higher levels of development. Likewise, it allows investigators to continue deepening their understanding of sustainable development, a complex issue at the community level, as they are areas little addressed by the state. Originality/Value: It is a first work that measures the relationship of the three variables in communities, thus contributing to the sustainable development literature with empirical evidence for the implementation of development policies at the community level.

A thematic review on community governance from 2018 to 2023: Analysis of future research trends

With the advancement of modernization, commoditization and grassroots governance have become important terms. Community governance not only promotes modern democracy but plays a key role in improving community governance capabilities and modernizing the governance system, which is receiving much attention. Despite the expanding number of articles on community governance, few evaluations investigate its evolution, tactics, and future goals. As a result, the particular goal of this study is to provide the findings of a thematic analysis of community governance research. Investigating the skills and procedures needed for practice-based community government. Data for this study were gathered through a thematic assessment of 66 papers published between 2018 and 2023. The pattern required by the researchers was provided by the ATLS.ti23 code used to record the review outcomes. This study proposes six central themes: 1) rural advancement, 2) community (social) capital, 3) public health and order governance, 4) governance technology, 5) sustainable development, and 6) governance model. The research results show that the research trend of community governance should focus on rural advancement, taking rural community governance as the starting point, the dilemma and adjustment of the governance model, community public health and order governance, and digital governance. It will yield new insights into new community governance standards and research trends.

How rural community resilience evolves after a disaster? A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

Frequent occurrence of natural disasters has become one of the most serious challenges to human society. As rural communities are the forefront of disasters, enhancing the resilience of rural community is crucial to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and seek rapid recovery. This paper provides an analytical framework for changing trajectories of the resilience of rural communities after disasters. Taking the disaster area affected by the catastrophic debris flow in China as an example, we analyze the changing trajectories of rural community resilience after disaster in three villages with different damage levels from 2010 to 2020 based on the data from key person interviews, the disaster situation and development reports, village work records and farmers’ questionnaires. We found that the changes of community resilience after disaster show obvious stages due to the difference in the intensity of effects of government intervention and community self-organization ability during disaster relief reconstruction period and self-recovery period. The resilience of communities with different disaster losses showed an increasing trend. However, during the disaster relief and reconstruction period, the resilience of the severely affected community was improved faster, followed by the most severely affected community, while the resilience of generally affected community was improved more slowly. During the self-recovery period, the resilience of the affected general community was improved faster than that of the other two communities. The evolution process of community resilience reflects the increasing role of self-organizational capacity in post-disaster community development, aligning with the overall global trend in rural community governance. In addition, there is a significant sequence in the improvement speed of different dimensions of community resilience at different stages after disasters. During the disaster relief and reconstruction period, the resilience of community management was improved faster and the resilience of environment was slower. During the self-recovery period, the economic resilience of community was improved faster and the social resilience was improved slower. Finally, some suggestions were put forward to strengthen natural disasters prevention and community resilience in disaster-prone areas.

Study on the Path of Art Infiltration in Rural Community Governance within the Identity of Interest: An Analysis of the Role of Social Workers in Curating and Hosting the Exhibition

Study on the Path of Art Infiltration in Rural Community Governance within the Identity of Interest: An Analysis of the Role of Social Workers in Curating and Hosting the Exhibition

Rural Communities and Water Governance: Understanding Participatory Processes for Catchment Management in the Upper Umzimvubu Catchment

Water is a crucial issue for sustainable livelihoods, and a lack of it impacts human life. Catchment areas play an essential role in water provisioning, and their management is fundamental for sustained water availability. The UN-endorsed Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach best expresses catchment management ideals that resonate with South Africa's constitutional ideals of efficient and equitable distribution of resources. South Africa has a history of inequality that led to severe neglect of rural areas in many facets, including the water sector. Despite the country's reformed laws and policies, sustainable water provision and access remain challenging, particularly in rural-based municipalities where land degradation and a weak revenue base interact to reduce access to water for most communities. This paper reports on a study that sought to understand participatory processes for catchment management in the upper Umzimvubu catchment within Matatiele Local Municipality in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province. This study used a qualitative approach to data collection and document analysis. The findings show that participatory water governance strategies exist and tend to coalesce around non-governmental structures. The findings also show that there is room for improving water governance in rural communities, including the need to finalize the establishment of Catchments Management Areas (CMAs) in all nine existing Water Management Areas (WMAs) while incorporating strong community involvement and strengthening the capacity of rural municipalities.

How can the construction of social credit system in the context of digitalization empower grassroots governance? — A Case Study of “Moral Bank” in Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province

The 20th Party Congress report proposed to improve the grid-based management, refinement of services, information technology to support the grassroots governance platform, and improve the urban and rural community governance system [1, p. 24]. Grass-roots social governance is the basis of the entire national governance system, which concerns the vital interests of millions of people. At present, the government concentrates funds and material resources on infrastructure construction, and while the hardware environment at the grassroots level is improving, the construction of soft power is seriously lagging behind, and residents’ awareness of participation and public spirit are seriously lacking, so grassroots governance needs to be transformed. The basic function of social credit system is to form incentives and constraints for various subjects with the help of credit evaluation mechanism, so as to realize effective social governance. The establishment of social credit system can not only create an environment to serve social governance, but also provide important support for the modernization of social governance system and national governance capacity. Thus, under the strategic choice of building a comprehensive social credit system, combining an effective social credit system with grassroots social governance is an inevitable choice for China’s future development. Meanwhile, along with the accelerated development of digitization in China, the digitization of social credit system construction has become a powerful boost to promote credit governance. The digital transformation of social credit system can fully activate the path of credit information formation and collection in the traditional social credit system, optimize the operation mechanism and application scenario of credit evaluation mechanism, and thus maximize the functional utility of credit-enabled grassroots social governance. Based on this, this paper attempts to take the many challenges faced by grassroots governance as a logical starting point, take the “moral bank” in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province as a case study, trace how the construction of social credit system empowers grassroots social governance in the context of digitalization, explore the operation mechanism and practical effects of it, and extract corresponding insights.

The Practice Path and Internal Logic of Urban-Rural Community Integration Governance

The community is the basic unit of primary-level social governance, and the transformation of community governance practices in the urban-rural dual field to an integrated path is a key measure to promote the modernization of urban and rural primary-level social governance systems and governance capabilities. China's urban communities are characterized by rich basic resources but lack of endogenous power, and rural communities are generally in the initial stage of construction but have a solid cultural consensus. Based on the Functional Course Theory, this study analyzes the differences in the development of urban and rural community governance in China and reveals that the disconnection of institutional systems, lack of interaction between organizations, and disjointed governance models are the reasons for the large differences in the development paths of urban and rural community governance. Institutional interdependence, structural complementarity, and method of mutual learning are the footholds of the integrated development path of urban and rural community governance. In the context of urban-rural integration, it is necessary to coordinate urban and rural community governance and promote community governance innovation through urban-rural social interaction, gradually narrow the gap in community governance paths, and promote the integration of urban and rural social governance.

Research on the Modernization Development Trend of Rural Community Governance under the Background of New Urbanization

Based on the research on "the governance of rural communities under the background of new urbanization", it is first necessary to clarify the "problems arising in the governance of rural communities", and then it is related to the widespread shortage of funds, the difficulty in improving the level of public services, the development of rural industries and the combined with the four problems of difficulty in employment for villagers and relatively backward service level, the countermeasures for the existing problems in rural community governance are analyzed, hoping to provide help to relevant people. The development of new-type urbanization and industrial integration is a new idea and concept vigorously advocated by the state, which has great guiding significance for the economic construction of various regions. However, under the current urbanization development model, more and more new rural communities have emerged, making rural community governance face new bottlenecks. Based on the development process of new urbanization, this paper analyzes the key points and characteristics of rural community governance innovation in the process of new urbanization.

What Is the Rational Choice of Community Governance Policy

Community governance is the “micro-cell” of social governance and the foundation of the governance system. The rational selection logic of community governance policy reflects the value orientation, goal selection, and tool guarantee of governance policy. It is the result of the interaction between government and public values and it reflects the final value choice in the form of policy text and tries to balance policy rationality through accurate calculation. Through the analysis of 100 government work reports and 63 community governance policy documents of the Chinese government from 2013 to 2022, it was found that “People-oriented” was the core value orientation of governance policy. “Better life” was a key target choice for governance policy. “Diversified tools” were an important implementation guarantee for governance policy. These rational choices were consistent between the central and the local governments, but there was a conflict between localities. Urban and rural community governance policies need to establish a public space between policy rationality and value selection to solve the targeting bias of policy rationality in the future. This paper solves the conflict between policy rationality and value choice using the paths of expert think tank construction, highlighting leading goals, and using technology empowerment, to adjust the tension between the two through reasonable value choice and balanced policy rationality, to achieve the goal of urban and rural community governance modernization.

Logical and Practical Directions: A Study of Emotional Governance in Rural Communities in the Age of Integrated Media

Rural community governance is a key initiative to consolidate and expand the results of poverty eradication and build a solid foundation for rural revitalization, and integrated media technology provides a feasible path for the transformation and upgrading of rural community governance. In terms of values, history and reality, rural community governance urgently calls for the appearance of the emotional governance model; in terms of economic, political and cultural practices, live streaming, county-level integrated media and short video app have become effective forms of emotional governance in rural communities in the era of integrated media. With the impetus of media technology, the emotional dimension of rural community governance will expand the imagination and practice of social governance in China in the future.

Practical Exploring of Rural Community Governance in Guangxi — An Case Study of Village L

With the development of China’s modernization and the acceleration of the process of urban-rural integration, rural problems are increasingly aggravated. In order to solve the difficult problems of rural community governance in China, village L is used as the research object to explore the path of rural community governance in China. Through fieldwork, it was found that the supply of public services in rural communities was insufficient, rural construction planning is confusing, and rural community workers are not competent enough in community governance in village L; countermeasures such as improving the supervision and management mechanism of village committees, expanding rural economic income channels, strengthening scientific planning in rural areas and encouraging professionals to participate in community governance are proposed to provide reference suggestions for improving community governance in village L.

Full Empowerment and the Participatory Governance in Rural Communities: A Comparative Study Based on Two Cases

Full Empowerment and the Participatory Governance in Rural Communities: A Comparative Study Based on Two Cases

Gentrifying rural community development: A case study of Bama Panyang River Basin in Guangxi, China

Rural gentrification is deeply characterized by institutional context and spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Based on a diachronic field investigation, this paper constructs an analytical framework for gentrifying rural community development (GRCD) with a “community” theoretical perspective and analytical approach, defines the concept of GRCD, and analyzes the main characteristics, formation mechanism and regulation path of a typical gentrifying rural community in the Panyang River Basin of Bama County, Guangxi. Driven by factors such as the complex flow and heterogeneous living space practices of the host-guest community, the longevity “myth” led by commercial capital and consumption demand, and multiple action logics and desertification community governance, great changes have occurred in the social space and material landscape of the rural longevity community. Such changes include comprehensive reconstruction of the resident population, surface interaction and social separation of the host-guest community, residential structure change and settlement landscape renewal, and delocalization of the healing landscape and lifestyle changes. We propose policy insights in three areas: public and localization institutional arrangements, shared and comfortable gentrifying rural community making, and inclusive and synergistic gentrifying rural community governance. Through these aspects, we provide insights from the Chinese case for the gentrification and community development of rural areas in the Global South.

The Embedding of Sports Social Organizations in Rural Governance Based on the Collaborative Governance Model of Multiple Subjects

Rural governance is an important part of national governance, and the participation of social organizations is also very important. This research explores the multiple relationships between rural governance subjects and governance methods through the basic requirements of “co-construction and sharing” of multi-governance and the status quo of creation activities, integrates an innovative rural community governance evaluation and supervision system, and builds rural community governance evaluation and supervision system mechanism. Mutually exclusive constraints on the diversity of governance subjects will provide strategic guidance for sports social organizations to participate in diversified management.

Constituent aspects of riverside isomorphic governance on the Ilha do Careiro (Amazonas, Brazil)

Understanding governance in rural communities in the state of Amazonas requires interdisciplinary knowledge, as understanding the network of political articulation involves a collection of knowledge. Despite the existence of numerous works related to this subject, an a prior state is presumed in the representation of the network of political articulation, which leads to an exacerbated role of the State, in the face of other forms of social organization. Hence, the objective of the article was to analyze the environmental governance in the São Francisco community, located on the Ilha do Careiro da Várzea, in the state of Amazonas. We built Venn diagrams of agriculture, fishing, and plant extractivism to achieve this. The evidence provided indicates that the existing governance in the studied community is an isomorphic governance, which is the materialization of organized molecular power, originating from the triumvirate correspondence between the activities developed on lands, in forests, and on waters.

The Practical Dilemma and Method Analysis of the Community Consultation and Communication Mechanism in Rural China in this New Era

Based on the fact that construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, ways to deal with the practical problems in the rural community governance practice since the new era, especially how to mediate the disputes and contradictions between the rural community subjects in the governance process, seems urgent. This article focuses on the low level of mass participation in the rural community consultation and communication mechanism in the new era, insufficient construction of consultation and communication platforms, unclear content of consultation and communication, and lack of supervision and feedback. In this new era, China’s rural community consultation and communication mechanism has taken a more practical method.