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The Maintenance/Control Type of Political Power: Characteristics of Township Governments in the Web of Multiple Structures

欧阳静 江西财经大学财税与公共管理学院.   

  1. Ou Yangjing， School of Public  Finance and Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Ecnomics.
  • Online:2011-05-20 Published:2011-05-20
  • Contact: Ou Yangjing， School of Public Finance and Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Ecnomics. E-mail:jinger_ouyang@163.com
  • About author:Ou Yangjing， School of Public Financeand Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Ecnomics.

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Abstract:

Since the “central task” of the township governments manifests their functions and roles, the centraltask perspective may reveal some of their concrete characteristics. However, this perspective can only let us see the various facets of the characteristics of township governments but not their essential features that are hidden in the web of multiple structures, that is, being at the intersection of the state and society, which is at the bottom rung of the bureaucrat hierarchy, under the topdown institutional pressure but having to face a bottomup rural society. This unique position in the web of multiple structures has shaped township governments’ essential feature of a “maintenance/control political power.” In order to remold this feature, the construction of the state power must be directed to the operational structure of township governments. 

Key words: bureaucrat system, maintenance/control political power, pressure system,      rural society