The Evolutionary Logic of Differences in the Effectiveness of Rural Governance with Capable Returnees—A Longitudinal Observation of Tenure with Capable Returnees as Village Cadres in S Town
Against the backdrop of policies aimed at continuously improving and perfecting the systems and mechanisms for urban-rural integrated development in China,it has become a common phenomenon for capable individuals,who serve as carriers of developmental content and resources,to return to rural areas and participate in rural governance.Exploring the differences in the effectiveness of capable returnees in governing villages and the mechanisms shaping these differences holds significant theoretical and policy value.By constructing an analytical framework encompassing resource mobilization actions-interests link actions-rural governance effectiveness,it investigates the interactive pattern of actions-interests and its logic in shaping rural governance effectiveness during the rural governance process conducted by capable returnees who serve as village cadres,it finds as core distributor of internal and external resources within the village,these capable returnees embedded again in the village will proactively and rationally select the type of rural governance action led by resources mobilization,based on changes in the governance context.Owing to the lack of joint guidance based on rural development and endogenous order in rural areas,rural governance actions led by resource allocation are easily influenced by the personal will of capable returnees serving as village cadres.Consequently,under static time slicing,different types of rural governance actions and their action-interest interaction mechanisms lead to varying levels of rural governance effectiveness among capable returnees serving as village cadres.However,within a dynamic time process,the rural governance actions taken by these returnees will also adapt to changes in the governance context,thereby evolving a dynamic process where rural governance effectiveness initially rises and then declines.