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Rules and Order: The Transformation of Grassroots Social Governance

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The basic conditions for constructing the order of grassroots social self-governance involve two aspects: one is the legal guarantee of self-governance, that is, making clear the social self-governance rights and the connotation and borders of rights between citizens and the state, and between different levels of self-rule bodies. The second is the structure of multi-center public governance entities in the fields of government, society and markets. The third is a reconstruction of the subject society. Only by removing the dependence of society on the state can the principle of self-governance be established.

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Zhou, Q. (2022). Rules and Order: The Transformation of Grassroots Social Governance. In: Official Governance and Self-governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6601-9_10

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