Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2009, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (4): 20-31.

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Confliction, Predicament and Introspection: The Basic Body of
Community Administration and the Construction of Civil Society

  

  1. (Department of Politics, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law,
    Shanghai 201701, China)
  • Online:2009-07-15 Published:2009-07-15

Abstract:

Abstract: At the present, in the basic bodyconstruction of community administration, not only do social contradiction and confliction focus on the relation between owners committees and property companies, but also appear the friction and dispute between owners committees and neighborhood committees. While owners committees face such problems as assembly, preparation, operation and rights, property companies witness so many complaints about poor services and bad manners that they are often describes by the press as "the troubleoverrun area". The survey shows that the 90 per cent of the owners in Shanghai are discontented with both the current situation of owner committees and the administration of property companies. At the same time, neighborhood committees become more and more professional, institutional and administrative, which not only limit their autonomous function, but also, due to the "mismatch" of administrative deputy, change their nature as the organizational carriers of community administration and democratic development, turning it into the predicament of intension and dissonance. Under the current system of government, in the process of the "game playing" that represents the deep order of the urban lowlevel power, the administrative might is always the "bottleneck" of the severe hysteresis of construction for civil society. By virtue of the above casestudy of the contradiction, confliction and predicament in the basic structure of community administration in Shanghai in recent years, the author concludes that the community construction, due to the structure limitation by market power and institutional factors, as well as the confliction between the ideal target of social administration and the intension of the present system and framework, fills with erratic elements, not only in insufficiency of the driving force in community administration but also in absence of the way to transform. Therefore, it is necessary for the basic body of community administration to have a series of reforms such as supporting policy, new system, regulated structure, innovated mechanism, coordinated resources and relocated role or function so as to gain the substantial breakthrough and innovation in system, mechanism and ideology.

Key words: Key words: community administration; civil society; selfgovernance by residents; contradict between grassroots

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