Public Administration and Policy Review ›› 2023, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (2): 24-.

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Influence of Dual-weakened Intergovernmental Structure(DWIS) factor to Cross-regional Public Service Collaborative Policy under the Regional Integration Process:Case Study on Cross-domain Bus between Y City and Z New District in the Yangtze River Delta Region

  

  • Online:2023-03-17 Published:2023-03-10

区域一体化下 “弱-弱” 府际结构因素对跨域公共服务协作政策的影响#br#
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Abstract:

As China enters a new era of high-quality development, the mode of regional development is transforming from traditional administrative division to regional integration strategy. Meanwhile, the construction of cross-regional public service collaborative policies is essential. Although the local government is mainly responsible for the supply of localized public services, the cross-regional public service collaborative policy has the attribute of horizontal intergovernmental cooperation, and the horizontal intergovernmental structure has an important impact on the cross-regional public service collaborative policy behavior. This paper focuses on the influence of special dual-weakened intergovernmental structure (abbreviated as “DWIS”), which referred to a situation of both in weak financial resources and weak policy capacity for nearby two local governments. From the perspective of resource-capability theory, an adaptive bonding analysis framework is constructed based on the three dimensions of goal constraint, motivation induction and discourse construction. Combined with the case study of cross-domain bus between Y city and its adjacent Z new district in the Yangtze River Delta region, an adaptive bonding analysis is carried out on the formation mechanism of the collaborative policy dilemma influenced by the DWIS factors. The result reveals that the DWIS factor has a distorting effect of adaptive bonding mechanisms on the cross-regional public service collaborative policy decision and implementation process. Specifically, the shortage of financial resources weakened the motivation of local government’s participation in collaborative policy, and the lack of policy capabilities reduced the ability for conflict management in the policy process, which resulting in barriers in target integration, motivation induction as well as incompatibility of multi-dimensional discourse systems. Therefore, in order to speed up the process of regional integration, it is necessary to attach importance to the DWIS factor existing in adjacent governments’ cooperation in low development gradient areas, and take multiple measures to solve the dilemma of the government’s participation in cross-regional public service collaborative policy and even in process of regional integration development.

Key words: dual-weakened intergovernmental structure(DWIS), cross-regional public service policy, collaborative governance, resource-capacity, adaptive bonding

摘要: 伴随我国步入高质量发展的新时代,地区发展方式正从行政辖区化向区域一体化战略转型,其中构筑跨域公共服务协作政策是区域一体化发展的基础。地方政府是辖区公共服务供给的责任主体,但跨域公共服务协作政策具有横向府际协作属性,横向府际结构因素对跨域公共服务协作政策行为具有重要影响。本研究聚焦于毗邻两地政府均处于弱财力资源和弱政策能力情形下的横向府际结构因素 (简称 “弱 弱”府际结构)对跨域公共服务协作政策的影响。从资源 能力视角切入,基于目标约束、动机诱导与话语构建三个维度,构筑一个调适性联结分析框架。结合长三角地区 Y市毗邻公交的案例分析,对 “弱 弱”府际结构因素影响下的跨境公交协作政策困境形成机理进行调适性联结分析。研究发现:“弱 弱”府际结构对跨域公共服务协作政策决策和执行过程产生了调适性联结的扭曲效应,其中弱财力资源弱化了地方政府参与跨域公共服务协作政策决策的正向
动力,而弱政策能力降低了跨域合作政策过程中的冲突协调能力,造成了目标整合困难、动机诱导失败及多维话语体系难以相容等协作障碍。因此,加快区域一体化进程,需要重视低发展梯度地区政府合作存在的 “资源 能力”双弱短板,通过多措并举,破解其参与跨域公共服务协作治理乃至融入区域一体化发展的困境。

关键词: “弱 弱”府际结构, 跨域公共服务政策, 协作治理, 资源 能力, 调适性联结