Strive for Autonomy: An institutionalism analytic framework about the rise and fall of rural collective enterprises

通过与“市场维护型联邦主义”理论的对话,以及对集体企业兴衰史的重新梳理,本文提出了一个新的制度分析框架来解释集体企业的兴衰。与那种过于强调地方政府“为增长而竞争”的观点不同,本文突出了各级政权在一个超大规模的集权体系中为了扩展自主性而努力奋斗的因素。认为集体企业所以能从乡村社会中内发出来,正是处于集权体系最底层的基层政权为了扩展和维护基层自主性的结果。而集体企业的失败,宣告了这种努力的严重受挫。从而对乡村集体企业的兴与衰给出了一个统一的解释。

Based on review of the market-preserving federalism theory and the history of the rise and fall of collective enterprises，this article proposes an alternative institutionalism analytic framework to interpret the rise and fall of rural collective enterprises. Different from the interpretation which has often been generalized as “competition for growth”，this new framework highlights the grass roots governments' effort for maintaining and expanding the poor and valuable political autonomy in the extra large scale centralized system. This paper argues it is just the strife for autonomy that has propelled the collective enterprises to develop endogenously from the grass roots society. The grass roots governments' failure ended the collective enterprises' prosperity.

熊万胜

国家社科基金项目“社会主义新农村建设背景下的农民合作研究”(07BSH010)的阶段性成果

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