Civic Organizations And The Community Governance In Urban America

The research and practice of urban community governance is moving into top on the topic of Harmonious Society. However, the research subjects are limited on the contents, institution and model, and there is no any comparative study on foreign and domestic urban community governance which would certainly benefit for operation. This paper argues subject diversification and re-positioning of government's function in community governance, taking the case of Community Development Corporations (CDCs).Induction to the literature materials is emphasized in this paper, including the theoretical main points of urban community governance, the recent bottleneck of domestic related practice, and the summary of domestic relevant theoretical research. According to the induction, it is worth to study the civic organization in community governance angle, and American urban community governance will be a great research object, which already have very long past experience.The CDCs are such a kind of civic organization, working on community-based development. They spread cities and countries, and the ones act in cities especially in metropolises is this paper's subject. They are engaged in a wide variety of community improvement and community-building activities, with which the low-income family's living standard could be modified constantly. As an important subject of American urban community governance, the birth and growth of CDCs follows the postwar urban redevelopment and varying federal urban policy, and reflects the significance of Civic organization's entrepreneur disposition, self-government sense, and government's timely innovation.Base on good governance, there is natural relationship between community governance and three theories: Polycentric Government, New Public Service, and Social Capital. Considering community governance as a system, cooperation is crucial to the future of community. CDCs produce housing units or other service; intermediaries support community development activities and provide technical assistance to CDCs; public sector establishes the legal framework and provides finance. To draw lessons from American urban community governance and CDCs, and on the premise that national condition has been clarified, we could reform internal community governance by four visual angles: institutional security, position of government, the cultivation of civic organizations, and the cultivation of civic society. Due to the limited time constraints and author's knowledge, plus the required information and data was difficult to complete, there are inevitable defects in the article. And sincerely hope that teachers could grant instruction.