关键词: 信任, 超大城市, 街区治理共同体, 新兴领域群体, 党建引领

Abstract:

Actors in emerging sectors are playing an increasingly important role in grassroots governance in the urban blocks of megacities. Yet the formation of block-level governance communities faces considerable challenges due to weak organizational networks，intense competition for resources，and the high mobility of participating actors. Trust theory provides a useful lens for understanding how these barriers to cooperation can be overcome. Drawing on the classic distinctions between political and social trust，as well as between generalized and particularized trust，this study identifies four forms of trust：personalistic political trust，institutional political trust，interpersonal social trust，and generalized social trust. On this basis，it develops an analytical framework of “trust-building and organizational empowerment” under Party-building leadership to explain how block-level governance communities take shape.Drawing on governance practices in T Town，Shanghai，the study finds that trust-building follows a progressive process of awakening，anchoring，and spillover，through which block-level Party organizations activate，consolidate，and transform different forms of trust. Organizational empowerment further translates the willingness to cooperate generated by trust into a sustainable capacity for collective action. Specifically，deliberative empowerment fosters integrity-based trust，incentive-based empowerment strengthens competence-based trust，and participatory empowerment enhances benevolence-based trust. Together，these mechanisms transform trust-based willingness to cooperate into sustained collaborative action，thereby facilitating the formation of a block-level governance community characterized by collaboration and co-governance.

Key words: trust, megacity, block-level governance community, actors in emerging sectors, Party-building leadership