村庄政治,顾名思义就是村庄的选举、政治博弈等一系列政治事务和事件的总称。形象地说,就是村民的选举权与被选举权,农民的公民权,农民上访与基层干部的博弈事件,群体性事件、基层公共安全治理以及政权运作等等。通过田野调查我们发现,这些问题都很棘手,在转型期的中国底层社会处于一种“无解”和“乏力”的状态。之所以要强调这个时期的主要原因在于,我们不知道村民自治到底会不会呈现出“基层民主”社会,会不会把中国的底层社 Village politics, as the name suggests, is a general term for a series of political affairs and events such as village elections and political games. The image is that the villagers’ right to vote and be elected, the peasant’s citizenship, peasant petitions and grassroots cadre game events, mass incidents, grass-roots public safety governance and government operations and so on. Through the field investigation, we found that these problems are very tricky. In the transitional period, China’s bottom society is in a state of “no solution ” and “weakness ”. The main reason for emphasizing this period lies in the fact that we do not know whether villagers’ autonomy will show a “grassroots democracy” in the end or not, and whether China’s grassroots society