A Study On The Coordination Mechanism Of Social Regulation

Social regulation is to correct inefficiency of resource allocation and unjust of distribution caused by market failure in essence, such as external and internal, and maintain social order and social stability, accordingly realize the social welfare level increasing. However, social regulation may be failure the same as economic regulation. Compared with economic regulation, social regulation has an important feature of the lateral restricts function, and involves all fields of our industrial production and social life, therefore, it is difficult for us to set up an independent regulation department with various aspects of knowledge and professional skills, thus form social regulation system with a huge transverse functions and longitudinal hierarchy. In this organization system, there will exist various contradictions and conflicts which will affect the efficiency of regulation policy between departments, thus lead to the failure of social regulation. Therefore, the study on the problem of department conflicts and coordination in social regulation not only helps to enrich and prefect the existing social regulation theory system but also has positive significance for improving the efficiency of government social regulation in China.This is a basic proposition of the paper: the important features of lateral restricts of social regulation decides that it is necessary to form regulation system with a huge transverse division of functions and longitudinal hierarchical. Therefore, we must comprehensively use the procedural coordination mechanism with the core of rules and authority and the non-procedural coordination mechanism with the core of trust and cooperation to eliminate or alleviate various contradictions and conflicts between different regulation departments, accordingly improve the effectiveness of social regulation. Namely, it is a fundamental way for solving the conflicts between departments and increasing the efficiency of social regulation to establish an idea of "harmony" as its essence. According this proposition, the paper comprehensively uses multidisciplinary knowledge and tools, such as social regulation theory, principal-agent theory and organization coordination theory, and strives to reveal various contradictions between departments of social regulation and the relationship of conflicts, and properly resolves the contradictions and conflicts through reasonable choice and design of coordination mechanism.In order to systematically expound the basic proportion, the paper is divided into the following sections:Chapter one is the general, provides an introduction to the background of study and why study the subject, topics and relevant of study, path and framework of study, contuibution and shortcoming, and lets people have a general understanding of main idea and content of the paper.Chapter two provides an introduction to common of literature and framework of analysis. Since few scholars systematically study the problem of coordination in social regulation, therefore, this chapter will explain this problem from three aspects in order to provide a theoretical support for the study and letting everybody can more clearly grasp the basic path. First of all, it will comprehensively explain the content of the theory of social regulation. Secondly, it will roughly evaluate and analysis the relevant study made by organization coordination theory and principal-agent theory. Finally, it will put forward the framework of analysis of social regulation coordination based on comprehensive related knowledge of three subjects.Chapter three provides an introduction to the necessity and feasibility analysis of social regulation coordination. The paper formally puts forward questions in this part, mainly analysis that what is social regulation and why we need to emphasize the importance of coordination in social regulation. The paper also points out that the conflicts between regulation departments about the goal of interest, values, information, policy and organizational structure is the main cause of leading to low efficiency of social regulation based on having a clear explanation of concepts and meanings which the paper defined of social regulation coordination. Therefore, rational coordination mechanism must be designed to eliminate or alleviate these conflicts. Meanwhile, we must also consider the feasibility of coordination in the process of choosing and designing the coordination mechanism. So, it is also very important to establish an idea of efficiency based on cost and benefit analysis.The paper starts to analysis the problem in chapter four and chapter five. The two parts deeply analysis the two most important forms which are interest conflicts and structural conflicts in social regulation, and obtain the corresponding conclusion. In chapter four, the paper considers that conflicts of interest can be divided into longitudinal conflicts of interest between politicians and regulators and transverse conflicts of interest between different regulators in the social regulation. The longitudinal conflicts of interest can be divided into interest conflicts of regulators pursuing maximizing department budget surplus and interest conflicts of regulators pursuing regulatory powers and discretion. The transverse conflicts of interest can be divided into forward conflicts and backward conflicts. This part uses principal-agent model to analysis the conflicts, meanwhile, proposes some basic strategies to solve the conflicts based on principal-agent theory.In chapter five, the paper considers that present organizational structure can be divided into two basic modes which are public bureaucracy and new public administration, and concretely analyzes and contrasts the structural conflicts under the two kinds of mode and the obvious difference between coordination mechanisms, and points out that the organization under the mode of bureaucracy usually exists serious longitudinal and transverse structural conflicts, and that it is very difficult to obtain satisfactory results due to overly emphasis on using procedural coordination mechanism to coordinate the internal conflicts between the members. Relatively, the organization under the new public management mode is better to solve the organization structural conflict problem. Then it analyzes the structure conflicts and coordination problem in social regulation with the case of water environment regulation in China.Chapter six is to solve the problem. It puts forward the problem of selection and design of social regulation coordination mechanism based on the front studies. Social regulation coordination mechanism can be divided into two basic types based on the analysis framework of dichotomy. One is procedural coordination mechanism with the core of regulation and authority. Another is non-procedural coordination mechanism with the core of trust and cooperation. Meanwhile, it also points out that the two kinds of coordination mechanisms are indivisible, influence each other and work together in fact. We must consider degree and form of function of the two kinds of coordination mechanism according to the specific situation, in order to develop the whole function of the coordination mechanism. Finally, the paper points out that we should mainly consider two realistic constraint conditions which are information technology and the social transformation in the process of selection and design of social regulation coordination mechanism in China, and puts forward some basic path for mechanism design.Chapter seven is to apply the theory. In this chapter, social regulation coordination mechanism theory will be applied to the field which is noticed by most people of food safety regulation in China. It also in-depth and meticulous analyzes the problem of regulation conflicts of food safety regulation in China, and proposes some policy suggestion about regulation coordination mechanism.