基于2015年至2016年在上海社區的深度研究,通過老舊公房小區群體性糾紛化解的過程來展現居委會、物業公司、業委會和居民之間的四方互動。研究發現,居委會在上海當下的老舊小區中起到溝通和協調其他三方中的主導作用,從而令群體性糾紛得以通過訴訟外的途徑解決。國家主導下的社區治理在有效控制基層社區和化解群體性矛盾中具有重要意義。社區治理中的四方互動有助于理解地方政府在缺乏體制內糾紛化解正式渠道的情況下,通過另一種制度安排來實現基層治理的邏輯。

Based on an intensive fieldwork in old residential communities in Shanghai from 2015 to 2016,this paper examines the quadripartite interaction among residents’ committees,property management companies,homeowners’ committees and residents in the process of collective dispute settlement in the urban privatized public housing neighborhoods.The paper finds that the residents’ committees play a leading role in communicating and coordinating with the other three parties,which contributes to the non-judicial settlement of collective interest disputes in privatized public housing neighborhoods of today’s Shanghai.It argues that state-led community governance has its significance in realizing effective grassroots community control as well as defusing mass grievances.The quadripartite interaction is helpful to understand the local government’s trajectory of grassroots governance through the rationale of the Party-state’s institutional arrangement in the absence of formal channels of dispute settlement within the system in urban China.