Abstract

Under the background of China’s building of new socialist countryside,integration of urban and rural areas of basic public services, and promoting the reform of rural irrigation works, how to effectively governance to public goods in rural areas,become an important issue on whether the rural public affairs can be sustainable developed or not. However, how to solve this problem, on the one hand, the institutions of “one matter determined by one discussion” and “Farmer's Water Conservancy Association” is difficult to obtain satisfactory results in practice. On the other hand, the topics of “Prisoner's Dilemma” and “Collective Action Dilemma”have been unable to be thoroughly solved in theory until now. Although we can learn from much idea to which many western scholars put forward, we cannot copy the photos with the theory made by western scholars because of the special circumstances of rural areas. Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to build a more complete theoretical framework which unifies the actual situation of China’s rural areas such as acquaintances’ sociality, imperfect market environment and institution environment in the rural areas, and to study the problems of governance to the rural public goods from both theoretical and empirical.

In view of the dilemmas of governance to rural public affairs in both practice and theory, this article, takes empowering the people and multi-central government as the basic idea, regard solving the “free rider” and other opportunistic behaviors so as to form the autonomous organization composed of self-governance to the rural community public goods as research objectives. Adhere to the theoretical assumption of rational farmers, this article, firstly, deconstruct the factors which affect farmer’s self-governance and the will of the participation to the autonomous organization.These factors consist of farmer’s own characteristics, situation of property rights of rural community public goods, social capital in rural area, rural governance and support from government. And construct the theoretical framework which composes of the factors farmer’s own characteristics, situation of property rights of rural community public goods, social capital in rural area, rural governance and support from government. Secondly, the article using the software of SPSS, take the data from which the survey be made in the area of rural Guang-xi Bei-bu gulf to Logistic model’s regression analysis, so as to inspect and determine the various factors in the degree of influence on farmer’s self-governance and the will of participation on the autonomous organization. Finally, the article, on basic of combination of the theoretical and empirical results and summary of experience and problems of the existing autonomous organizations, propose the direction of autonomous organization for farmer: stock cooperative and corporate governance-based association of rural public affairs.

The article’s possible innovation lie in: firstly, it is a new idea but also a bold attempt which take the property rights, social capital and government’ s support to theoretical framework through profits from the theory of self-governance and combining the actual situation of China’s rural area; secondly, insists the assumption of rational farmer and focus specially on farmer’s dominant position of self-governance; thirdly, gives the special attention to the rural community public goods’ property rights, classify the rural public goods in accordance with standard of property rights, and rethink the way to realize the property rights so as to play its important incentive role. fourthly, from the perspective of governance carefully examines the role in supply and governance to public goods, government should support the self-governance of farmer under the full rang in the concept of empowering the people through the indirect incentive means rather than means of direct intervention, invest in human capital to farmer so as to enhance farmer’s knowledge and the technical training, raise the market consciousness, increase rational consciousness and sense of participation, cultivate social capital and enhance farmers’ mutual trust, the cooperation and the network relation so as to reduce the behavior of “free rider” because of opportunism, improve the system of property rights related to public goods and system of rural governance, provide the system’s safeguard for the farmer’s self-governance; fifthly, pay high attention to the role of social capital form the actual situation of rural area, and analysis and examine it in aspects of both theoretical and empirical.

Key Words： Rural Community Public Goods，Self-governance，Property Rights，Social Capital