The Research Of The Interactive Relationship Between Government And Social Organizations On Purchase Public Service

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese reform hastransferred the emphasis from the economic sphere to the political and social sphere.On the one hand, the government puts forward a slogan that its functions should betransformed and a new social management system should be innovated; on the otherhand, a large number of social organizations appear and provide various publicservices in all kinds of fields. In the context of reality, some local governmentsbegan to explore the public service reform, and purchase services became one of themost important type of this explore. As a new concept, mechanism and method,theoretical research force is desired. What the relationship between the governmentand the social organizations is, how it becomes and what infection will take place, allof these have became the topics of this research.This paper analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the three maintheories in the field of the relationship research between government and socialorganizations, including macro-structure, meso-organization and micro-actionresearch. And an “institution logic-action strategy” analysis framework wasdeveloped basing on the combination of Meso-organization and micro-actionanalysis methods. It investigated the construction process of the relationship, takingthe purchase of disabled service in JD district of Shanghai as a case, and alsoexplained the reason of construction both from meso and micro levels.As rational corporate actors, government and social organizations with their ownprincipals and agents would form their public interest and self-interest respectively.Then, their public interest and self-interest would produce multiple institutional logicsincluding public services and their own developments. With their multipleinstitutional logics, the government would take the action strategies of selectivesupport and stealth control, and the social organizations would behave such actionstrategies, where dependence and complying with the government at the first and expanding themselves at the last. It was found that the institution structure and actionstrategies were generated and structured mutually not only inside the actor, but alsobetween the actors, and the pursuing of their power and capabilities was also theimportant factor.Furthermore, this paper analyzed the construction process of the relationshipbetween government and social organizations from its base and characters and got theconclusion that the relationship was not an institutional construction but a strategicchoice which was relatively flimsy and variable. It also pointed out that therelationship between government and social organizations in present purchase was notthe equal cooperation relation, but unsymmetrical dependence relation. The purchasehad transferred not the power of the government, but its capabilities of the publicservice, in which the power penetration of government could even be enhanced. At thesame time, social organizations had only raised their capabilities of public service,their power was still weak.