"Organized Common Benefits":What Can Resident Participation Contribute to Community Governance?
Resident participation is a key component in advancing community governance and establishing a stable,orderly,and vibrant grassroots governance structure.Confronted with the polarization between"weak engagement"and"contentious participation",the concept of"organized common benefit"offers a practical and sustainable approach for residents to participate in building community governance.This concept involves residents engaging in community pub-lic affairs through organized forms,promoting interaction,convergence,and symbiosis between"community public in-terest"and"individual resident interests".Examining the stages of resident participation since the founding of the People's Republic of China reveals an evolving pattern from dependent participation to cooperative participation,ad-vancing towards autonomous and collaborative participation,as common benefits expand through the interaction be-tween public and private interests.In the new era,utilizing"degree of organization"and"scope of common benefit"as variables,four types of resident participation emerge,each reflecting a governance relationship:1)win-win cooperative participation and partnership governance;2)mobilized task participation and teammate governance;4)spontaneous vol-unteer participation and endogenous governance;and 4)occasional rights-protection participation and emergent gover-nance.To address the issues of fragmentation,elitism,and disorder in resident participation,it is necessary to further ex-pand the space for"organized common benefit",consolidate cooperative governance,enhance organized participation ca-pacity,and ensure structured regular participation.
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