Social management ideaology of Mo-Tse's and its enlightenment to the innovation of contemporary grass-root social governance: a practical case of innovation in Chongqing city of China

Abstract

The research paradigm of “problems-intellectual resources-countermeasures” is adopted for this paper, in which Mohist intellectual resources are sorted and pertinent thoughts are picked to build fundamental theories for innovation of grass-roots social governance from a series of pointcuts. Interdisciplinary and literature research, questionnaire, field and empirical study are adopted for realistic analysis, to get a picture and identify the problems of current grass-roots governance; empirical study is conducted through comparative analysis and case study, to uncover the causes of these problems. Finally, findings and conclusions on innovation of concept, entity, methodology and public service of grass-roots governance are drawn via a series of research methods.