Popularization of Legal Knowledge in Community Level — Analysis on the Foundations, Problems and Routes of the Rule of Law in Public Governance in Community Level

Abstract

Legislation is an important guidance of grassroots social governance in China and its practical foundation embodies in two mutually-supporting aspects: reconciling social contradictions and guaranteeing the "one core and multiple" governance structure according to law. However, Legislation is not the purpose of grassroots social governance itself, and its practice cannot be separated from the constraints of Chinese grassroots social traditions such as "no litigation" and "public and private alike", which will cause many problems such as weak legal authority and law enforcement, unadaptable hard law and so on. It is necessary for further to promote the legalization process of grassroots social governance by strengthening the guidance of party building at the grassroots level, promoting the co-existence of hard law and soft law, and shifting the emphasis of of law enforcement in grassroots level. Keywords—public governance in community level, rule of law, guided by party building, soft law