专号和轮流执行主编制度已经成为《法律和社会科学》办刊的重要传统。这次由我来担任本卷执行主编,组织“法律与乡村治理”专号。与“法律与××学”不同,“法律与乡村治理”中的“乡村治理”本身并不是一门学科,而是一个研究领域。乡村治理研究领域有一段兴起的历程。人民公社解体后,到20世纪80年代末,推行村民自治逐渐成为各方面的共识。20世纪90年代,国内从事政治学研究的一批学者开始关注并研究村民自治。进入实践后,这些学者很快发现,深入研 The system of special numbers and executive editors in rotation has become an important tradition of the law and social sciences. This time by me as the executive editor of this volume, organization “law and rural governance ” special. Different from “law and ×× study,” “village governance” in “Law and Village Governance” is not itself a discipline but a research field. There is a period of rise in the field of rural governance research. After the dissolution of the people’s commune, by the late 1980s, the implementation of villager autonomy gradually became the consensus of all parties. In the 1990s, a group of domestic scholars engaged in political science research started to pay attention to and study on villager autonomy. After entering practice, these scholars quickly discovered that further research