徐勇,1955年生,湖北宜昌人,法学博士。现为华中师范大学政治学研究院院长,中国农村问题研究中心主任,教授,博导。主要从事基层政治与乡村治理研究,是国内最早将实证研究方法引入政治学研究领域的学者之一,也是我国农村村民自治和城市社区自治研究领域的带头人之一。 Xu Yong, born in 1955, Hubei Yichang, doctor of law. He is currently the dean of the Political Science Research Institute of Huazhong Normal University, the director of the China Rural Research Center, the professor and the doctoral tutor. Mainly engaged in grass-roots political and rural governance research, is the earliest empirical research methods into the field of political science scholars, but also one of China’s rural areas in the field of village self-government and community leaders.