农村基层民主的成长逻辑与发展前景

农村基层民主的成长是当代中国政治发展的重要组成部分，已经在中国民主实践上留下了浓墨重彩的一笔。现行的农村基层民主是适应农村改革后维护农民的土地使用权及相关权利的需要而形成的，它保护家庭农场生产的正常秩序。市场经济在农村的发育、发展，农业公司不断压缩家庭农场的生产与发展的空间，逐步成为占主导地位的农业生产组织形态，这一变化将导致农村基层民主从村一级提升至乡（镇）层面，村民自治转变为乡镇自治；民主的内涵也将发生变化，农村基层民主不再是大众民主，而是实质上的精英民主。

Growing Logic and Prospects of Grassroots Democracy in Rural Areas

The growth of grassroots democracy in rural areas isan important part of the political development in contemporary China,which has significant influence on China’s democratic development.Adapting to the maintenance of rural reform of land use rights and related rights of farmers,the current rural grassroots democracy protects the normal order of family farms.The development of market economy in rural areas and appearance agricultural companies have constantly compressed the production and development space of family farm,and they have gradually become the dominant organizational forms of agricultural production.All the changes will upgrade rural grassroots democracy to the township level,and villagers’ autonomy will turn into township autonomy as well.By that time,the connotation of democracy will also have been changed,with grassroots democracy in rural areas no longer a mass democracy,but an elite one in essence.