[Abstract]The 21st century will be the era of civic governance, and citizen participation is the core mechanisms of citizen governance. Citizens at the Centre status in civic governance, equipped with modern citizenship and sound citizenship. This article is based on empirical investigations of the three cities on the Yangtze River Delta area, to resolve the basic current situation of development of civil governance, then analyzes in-depth the key factors that affect civic governance in community by the use of the Multinomial Logistic regression analysis. From the above analysis the present study attempts to explore the real picture that impacts and restricts citizen governance in the community and underlying causes that affect its development, hoping for providing a basic theoretical and practical analysis framework for civic governance and the growth of grass-roots democratic in our community. This study concluded that the realization of civil governance is bound to be a slow and lengthy process, needs continuous establishment and improvement of both civil governance model and the system and, more in need of the spirit of democracy, democratic values and culture of democratic ideas, and make it popular.
[Key words]grass-roots communities, civic governance, civic volunteerism, grass-roots democracy
[Author]Liang Ying is Associate Professor at School of Social and Behavior Science,Nanjing University.Nanjing 210046