National Autonomous Local Government Cooperation

Under the background of the co-existence of globalization and localization, national autonomous local governments are faced with a growing number of cross-border public issues, most of which could not be solved by any single local government. The basic principle to solve these issues is to provide public goods and public services by national autonomous and relevant local governments' cooperation. National autonomous local governments' cooperation starts with economic cooperation and has made some achievements in this aspect while the cooperation of public goods and public services is still in the initial stage and there are many obstacles in such cooperation. In order to promote and stimulate the cooperation in this area, it should set up a guarantee Mechanism of governments' cooperation and take a variety of effective measures to cope with the cross-border public issues so as to enhance its competitiveness on a wider scale. This study focuses on the following six parts.In the part of "Introduction", it analyzes the background of the study on the national autonomous local governments' cooperation. It also interprets its theoretical contribution and its practical guiding significance; it summarizes recent studies and results on the governments' cooperation at home and abroad and clarifies scholars' relevant study achievements on the governments' cooperation in China. And it gives a brief introduction of the study methods, framework and content.Chapter 1 "The Theory Foundation of the National Autonomous Local Governments' Cooperation". Firstly, it defines some core concepts, such as cooperation, governments' cooperation and national autonomous local governments' cooperation etc. Secondly, it focuses on discussing the property of national autonomous local governments' cooperation. It supposes such cooperation to be a kind of tool of the national autonomous local governance, and consider such cooperation to be the new development tragedy and the manifestation of it in the new era. And it indicates the main theoretical sources of the coordination theory, the organization network theory, the complex administration theory and the management theory. Furthermore, it also reveals the theoretical background of the governments' cooperation generating.Chapter 2 "The Origin and Evolution of the National Autonomous Local Governments' Cooperation". It analyzes the current situation, motive source of development of the national autonomous local governments' cooperation. It claims that the national autonomous local governments' cooperation is the governments' response to the cross-border public issues and takes the cooperation as strategies and measures. The kind of the local government-governing mode choice is not the result of an isolated factor but joint influences of external environmental changes and internal spontaneous force of the national autonomous local situation. At the same time, it can be learned from the development of local governments' cooperation that the cooperation originated from the economic area, and bound to the cooperation in the areas of public goods services with the social development and changing issues of the national autonomous local governments.Chapter 3 "The Pattern of the National Autonomous Local Governments' Cooperation". It takes Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture as a case study. By making an on-the-spot investigation of the status quo in the cooperation of public goods and public services, and speculating its developing prospect, it provides realistic foundation for these measures to promote and improve the cooperation among national autonomous local governments. Although the cooperation in public goods and public services of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture governments and other local governments are not very rich, they would have the trend to all-round cooperation in this area in future according to the status quo.Chapter 4 "The Analysis of Obstacles in the National Autonomous Local Governments' Cooperation". First of all, it analyzes the main causes of the obstacles in the national autonomous local governments' cooperation and points out that they are the non-symmetrical structure of resource dependence, the deficiency of legitimate identity, the difficult consultations and the complexity and uncertainty of the rules in action. Secondly, it analyzes the specific factors that influence the cooperation. The factors are the constraints of stress-oriented government performance evaluation index system, the role absence of central government, the lack of effective cooperation mechanismsin the cooperation, the difficulty in sharing cost of the cooperation caused by financial difficulties, the traditional administrative region inertia, the development at different stages and the lack of a unified e-government standards etc.Chapter 5 "Path selection to deen the National Autonomous Local Governments' Cooperation". It points out that the national autonomous local governments' cooperation should follow these principles, such as safeguarding the authority of the central governments', complementing each other's advantages, making the mutual benefits, having good faith and compensation of value, and participating voluntarily etc. Furthermore, it tables a proposal in target, motivation, operation, and coordination mechanisms to make national autonomous local governments' cooperation smoothly. At last, it puts forward the specific measures to deepen the national autonomous local governments' cooperation. They are perfecting official's performance evaluation and assessment system, improving and implementing governmental cooperation's legal norm, establishing a multilayer cooperating agency, regulating the ecological compensation system, unifying e-governments' standards to share information, strengthening the capacity of the national autonomous local governments' cooperation and building an honest governments' image etc.The part of "Epilogue" sums up the key viewpoints put forward in this study and points out some aspects that we should pay some special attention to in the future study.