See through them

He, Hao; She, Yingying; Jiang, Yu; Cai, Wei

doi:10.1145/3534085.3534338

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“…The Party's domination and mobilization of government agencies and social forces was the foundation of grassroots epidemic prevention and control. 84 However, the Party's intention to supplant the government and remodel society seems to have hit a roadblock. Large numbers of issues require community workstations' assistance and the government departments behind it; grassroots NGOs and volunteers also play diverse and specialized roles.…”

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Bringing the Party Back into the Community: Restructuring Grassroots Governance in Shenzhen

Cai

Liu

Jiang

2023

The China Quarterly

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While burgeoning research on China's state–society relations has paid attention to the Party, little is known about how the Party interacts with diverse actors and involves itself at the grassroots level in a specific region. This article delineates Party-advancement strategies at the community level in Shenzhen since 2013. To reclaim its leading role at the grassroots level, the Party opted for “Party–government disaggregation” by framing community governance as a Party-building affair, separating the government's affairs from those of the Party and “kicking” the government out of the community. Under the rubric of “reshaping Party–mass relations,” the Party penetrated deep into the community by innovating a “centre-periphery” organizational system, absorbing community elites in a top-down way and using a “service delivery taking the lead” method in a reciprocal exchange. In the end, the Party-governance structure, in which Party–mass relations are at the core, was reframed in the communities.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%