Study On Moral Logic Of Village Cadres In Rural Construction

The village cadres is the key actor of rural construction,previous studies have divided the roles of village cadres into three categories: agents of grass-roots political power,members of the village extended family and rational people pursuing their own interests.However,the existing research is still difficult to fully explain the behavior logic of village cadres in the rural construction.Taking the dynamic management of Rural Minimum Living Security System in S town of central China as an example,this paper analyzes and depicts the behavior choice and logic of village cadres by using the methods of Content analysis,participatory observation and in-depth interview.The study finds that the village cadres carry out the dynamic management of the rural subsistence security under the drive of deontic logic,and the village cadres are endowed with a new role —— Being a morality guard.The evasion of responsibility of the grass-roots regime makes the village cadres’ moral logic as "Safety first" peasants’ survival ethics activated,and becomes a negative strong incentive to the grass-roots regime.At the same time,with the help of top-down political achievements,the grass-roots governments have to recognize and comply with the moral logic,resulting in a reversed forcing mechanism of agent-bureaucracy.The Reversed Forcing Mechanism of Agent-Bureaucracy,describing a new mechanism for the interaction between the state power at the grass-roots level and the rural society,The performance of the role of a morality guard by village cadres can help to dredge the benefit transmission channel from bottom to top.Finally,this study proposes the path to consolidate the moral logic of village cadres,Mainly from Speeding up the process of “DE-administration”of village cadres,improving the grass-roots government performance evaluation mechanism,and enhancing the effectiveness of bottom-up communication,and strengthening the building of rural social communities.