Research On Non-institutionalized Political Participation Of Farmers Under Background Of Urbanization

From1982， new revision of the constitution admitted that the villagers’committee became a grass-roots autonomy organization, villagers’ autonomy problemand its derived problem of non-institutionalized political participation of farmers hasbeen a hot topic in academic research. With the deepening and development ofChinese urbanization, a large number of farmers are involved in political life byproduction and lifestyle changes that the urbanization brought. The phenomenon ofnon-institutionalized political participation has not completely disappeared whenmodernity came in with urbanization， but intensified in recent years. Study on thenon-institutionalized political participation of farmers under the background ofurbanization, we can not only explain the non-institutionalized political participationbehavior of farmers, explore the alleviation strategy, but also understand the problemof current deposit in the process of urbanization in China based on the analysis ofnon-institutionalized political participation and the specific relationship ofurbanization. Using the theory of historical institutionalism to carry out the research.According to the affect and scale and capacity of corrosion of system,non-institutionalized political participation behavior of farmer under the backgroundof the urbanization divided into two major categories of gentle way and passion way,and the similarities and differences between two kinds of way has carried on thedetailed analysis. This article analysis two cases and take the power asymmetry, thepath dependence and relationship structure changes in system, interests and conceptsas the causes of non-institutionalized political participation behavior of farmers underthe background of urbanization: the government and farmers is completed different inpolitical power is at the root of non-institutionalized political participation of farmers;the effect of path dependence that farmers hard to get rid of the influence oftraditional concepts is its historical origin; institutional change led to no intention to aseries of consequences, the interests of the relationship between the government andfarmers tend to be complex, farmers’ value orientation is more selfish, the structure ofthe relations form the core of the peasants’ non-institutionalized political participation. For the three paths, alleviation strategy is elaborated in this paper, one by one.Through the constitutional spirit constraint government behavior, to ensure that thegovernment and farmers enjoy equal political power; Through perfecting the relevantsystem of political participation to provide farmers with specification and reasonablepolitical participation channels, build system of discipline to punish the one’s illegalbehavior; For different features of gentle way and passion way, to carry forward themodernity to replace the traditional strategy and establish early warning mechanism.