Leading Mobilization and Rule Production:Dual Paths of Rural Grassroots Deliberative Democracy Construction——Based on 31 Cases through fsQCA
Promoting the construction of rural grassroots deliberative democracy is an important part of practicing the entire process of people's democracy and deepening the construction of grassroots democratic politics.Existing research has already involved the analysis of the influencing factors of rural grassroots de-liberative democracy construction,but it mainly focuses on single dimensional causal analysis,which can-not effectively present the composite effects of multiple factors in complex environments.Based on the theo-ry of deliberation systems,constructing an analytical framework by the external environment and internal el-ements of deliberation systems,and extracting five variables:cultural guidance,resource integration,sub-ject participation,spatial creation,and procedural norms.31 cases were selected from the national pilot u-nits for village level deliberation innovation for fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis.Research has found that the practice of rural grassroots deliberative democracy has generated two basic paths:"leading mobilization"and"rule production".The former mainly relies on the strong political momentum and organ-izational advantages of the CPC,through multiple mobilization mechanisms such as organizational embed-dedness,resource integration and cultural cultivation,which promotes the deep integration of political party organizational strength and deliberation practice,connects and integrates multi-party actions,digs and uti-lizes local knowledge in rural areas,leads the practice details and development direction of grassroots delib-erative democracy.The latter regards institutional rules as key variables,emphasizing the determination of the process mechanism and operational norms of deliberation through normative institutional documents,modern management methods,and information governance technology,providing specific and clear proce-dural guarantees and positive constraints for the behavior of negotiators,so that the process and results of deliberation fully reflect public will and demands.The joint efforts of two deliberation practice paths have promoted the optimization and upgrading of deliberation systems,effectively promoting the modernization of rural governance with a balance between complex and simplified governance,and shaping a distinctive Chi-nese style political and democratic development path for political parties.