Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2018, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (2): 170-176.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2018.02.009

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On the Difficulties of Urban Community Consultation——Based on the In-depth Interview of 35 Community Secretaries

ZHANG Ping, JIA Chen-yang, ZHAO Jing   

  1. (School of Humanities & Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China)
  • Received:2017-09-15 Revised:2017-09-15 Online:2018-03-25 Published:2018-03-29
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Abstract: Community consultation is a vivid practice of mass autonomy at the grassroots level, which is of great significance to resolve social conflicts and promote democracy construction at the grassroots level. Based on an encoding analysis of the in-depth interview data of 35 community secretaries, several major difficulties of city community consultation are explored, including singleness and inadequacy of community consultation subjects, one-sidedness and disorder of community consultation contents, incompleteness and randomness of community consultation procedures, and monism and out datedness of community consultation forms. It is thus proposed to establish the legal policy guarantee of community consultation, improve the subject structure of community consultation, enhance the subject quality of consultation, clarify the content list of community consultation, respond to the common appeals of community residents, better the community consultation procedures, reinforce the use of consultation results, increase the investment of community consultation and innovate the community consultation forms.

Key words: community consultation, code analysis, community resident autonomy

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