Abstract:
It is urgent that rural cultural governance needs to be arranged an innovative mechanism to link the three vertical and horizontal governance logics to solve the suspension of rural cultural resources in the new era. The mechanism of shared control rights is proposed as the innovative mechanism of three vertical and horizontal governance logics based on rural investigation and the control power theory, and then it is interpreted and analyzed through an integrated theoretical framework and multiple cases, on which its regular characteristics are summarized. The results are: (1) The mechanism of shared control rights is an innovative mechanism in which the township government and the control agents share the control power of rural culture, after the township government transfers part of the control of rural culture to cultural talents, Xinxiangxian and other control agents.(2) The analysis of an integrated theoretical framework shows that: caused by the flat structure of rural cultural governance, the mechanism of shared control rights vertically links the administrative contracting and project systems with the rural society, also it horizontally connect various functional organizations to form a rural cultural governance classification control system by forming the structural fulcrum of the “control agent of the township government”; and it has four external forms in rural practice. (3) Comparative analysis of multiple cases shows that the mechanism of shared control rights is helpful to solve the dilemma of the suspension of rural culture. Its internal characteristics present the “center-periphery” rule, but there are problems such as insufficient sharing depth and questionable legitimacy. (4) Countermeasures in terms of expanding the sharing depth and improving the standardization are proposed at last.