Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China
The villagers’ autonomy in China, which started from the 1980s, has been limited by the social, especially the political and legal, conditions. Only a partial realization was eventually realized amid the inevitable influence from the central power. As the experience of some rural Chinese areas demon...
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| description | The villagers’ autonomy in China, which started from the 1980s, has been limited by the social, especially the political and legal, conditions. Only a partial realization was eventually realized amid the inevitable influence from the central power. As the experience of some rural Chinese areas demonstrates, autonomy by law is the only direction of institutional development of villagers’ autonomy. However, in the current environment of historical habits, legal practice, mental thoughts, economic and social mortality, and politics, the villagers’ autonomy is more easily prone to the power rather than laws. To facilitate autonomy by law, the following strategies thus bear particular importance: (1) improve the legislation system to pave the way for the rule of law; (2) change rural governments’ attitude towards villagers’ autonomy and replace the intrusion by the macro direction; (3) abandon redundant government regulations to guarantee autonomy; (4) establish the system of legal remedy as a legal protection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-88a4b4bd128b4daa9a60e0841d4b10542022-12-21T20:24:45ZengEDP SciencesSHS Web of Conferences2261-24242014-04-0160101210.1051/shsconf/20140601012shsconf_ifsr2013_01012Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in ChinaMingchen Mao0Rui Mao1Law School, Zhejiang University of Finance and EconomicsSchool of Management, Zhejiang UniversityThe villagers’ autonomy in China, which started from the 1980s, has been limited by the social, especially the political and legal, conditions. Only a partial realization was eventually realized amid the inevitable influence from the central power. As the experience of some rural Chinese areas demonstrates, autonomy by law is the only direction of institutional development of villagers’ autonomy. However, in the current environment of historical habits, legal practice, mental thoughts, economic and social mortality, and politics, the villagers’ autonomy is more easily prone to the power rather than laws. To facilitate autonomy by law, the following strategies thus bear particular importance: (1) improve the legislation system to pave the way for the rule of law; (2) change rural governments’ attitude towards villagers’ autonomy and replace the intrusion by the macro direction; (3) abandon redundant government regulations to guarantee autonomy; (4) establish the system of legal remedy as a legal protection.http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20140601012villagers’ autonomylegalizationgrassroots democracy |
| spellingShingle | Mingchen Mao Rui Mao Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China SHS Web of Conferences villagers’ autonomy legalization grassroots democracy |
| title | Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China |
| title_full | Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China |
| title_fullStr | Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China |
| title_short | Autonomy by Law: The Only Direction of Institutional Development of Villagers’ Autonomy in China |
| title_sort | autonomy by law the only direction of institutional development of villagers autonomy in china |
| topic | villagers’ autonomy legalization grassroots democracy |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20140601012 |
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