Research On Vincent A.Ostrom's Thought Of Polycentric Governance

Since the the late 20 th century,the tide of governance reform has spread around the world,and related research in the field of governance has developed rapidly.In the current era,many countries are actively participating in the development of governance theory and application to achieve first-mover advantage in globalized international competition,contributing to the rapid economic growth in their own countries,promoting the progress of domestic democratic politics and cultural development,which in turn feeds back information on effective dynamics of politics,economy and society to improve and innovate the overall long-term and stable development of the country.Although the academic community has not yet formed to a unified conceptual definition,the common metaphors for governance have basically achieved consistency,including the management process of multi-government entities relying on an autonomous autonomous network system to achieve mutual trust and cooperation,and the ambiguity of boundaries and responsibilities between the government and the market.The polycentric governance theory proposed by the Indiana School and represented by Vincent Ostrom stands out from many governance theories and has become a key idea in governance theory.At the same time,the deconcentration of the public administration system under the polycentric order,Organizational models such as multi-participation competition in the public economy and multi-decision centers under the constitutional order all give the multi-center governance theory a practical meaning and value in the form of deconcentrating power and overlapping jurisdiction.The“single-center” public administration system regards the government as the only decision-making center,but the theory of multi-center governance is quite different.It believes that any participant can become a decision-making center,and the government should not become the sole decision-making body that is independent.Therefore,multi-center Governance theory attempts to break through the government's sole decision-making system,and adopts a multi-center decision-making system to achieve social progress and development under autonomous governance.The top-down,bureaucratic,single-decision-center management order cannot achieve the positive role of the citizen subject,which is exactly what the community or individual has in the public service provision and public goods actively advocated by the multi-center governance theory.Therefore,the idea of polycentric governance attempts to break through the stubbornness of the government's only decision-making system,and adopts a polycentric decision-making system to achieve social progress and development under autonomous governance.Based on this,by systematically sorting out Vincent Ostrom's multi-centered governance ideas,digging its guiding value for the national governance system and governance modernization,and then conducting a value review of the application and expansion of this idea,we can explore its limitations,with a view to finding new development ideas for future national governance.Polycentric governance of Vincent Ostrom is to inherit and carry forward the polycentric governance idea of thought on the basis of public administration theory,public choice theory,form their own independent of traditional public choice theory to the school of thought.In brief,the polycentric governance idea of Vincent comes from the special social environment and the theory of its origin,is drawing on the multidisciplinary research on the basis of traditional nutrient,guided by different ideas of public administration theory and form of the governance theory of epoch-making significance.Described in detail,after the second world war,with more than ten years of economic recovery,in the mid and late 60 s,new classical liberalism thoughts revival as well as the emergence of the ideological crisis of public administration belong with the failure of metropolitan governance,Vincent Ostrom's thought in the era of special marked key is generated.Specially,the public choice theory,cooperative game theory,bureaucracy theory and the theory of sovereign democracy and administrative theory,which acted as the academic origin of thought and theory of government failure and market failure and provided a theoretical foundation for breaking through theshackles of the single-center administrative system,a systematic analysis background is provided by the generation of multi-center order.Vincent's idea of polycentric governance stems from his interest in public administration reform in the metropolitan area of the United States,and is committed to social theory and empirical research built around the concept of polycentricism,with emphasis on various case studies.To be applied in practice,Vincent outlines a systematic framework of polycentric government administrative theory,polycentric public economic theory,and polycentric constitutional order theory based on a study of water resource governance in the western United States,governance in large urban areas,and case analysis of US constitutional practice.Since then,Vincent conceptually defined polycentric thought and formed a theoretical and conceptual understanding,summing up the core points of deconcentrated power and overlapping jurisdiction.At a practical level,the idea of polycentric governance breaks through the dilemma of the dual state-market structure,and creatively introduces the "third party" participation of citizen groups to realize the diversity of governance and the fairness of results and enhance citizen participation,as well as promoting the development of the country.In addition,Vincent relies on a clear institutional analysis framework,uses self-government as the driving force to expand value,and uses trust to achieve sustainable development.It conducts research on practical and operable methods of multi-centered governance,with deconcentrated power and overlapping jurisdiction as the core idea of polycentric governance has had an important practical impact on governance changes in countries around the world.Vincent not only built autonomous governance under a polycentric governance system based on institutional analysis and reflection,and broadened the scope and application of economics,making public economics an important support for public administration.The in-depth empirical research on it is hoped to confirm the adaptability and limitation of polycentric governance thought,and to open up the path of autonomous governance based on the plight of collective action,which is also an important innovation point of Vincent's polycentric governance thought.Further analysis,The practical effect of Vincent Ostrom's polycentric governance thought in practice and the extension of this thought to future studies of governance issues are necessary.Through police service case analysis,African water resources case analysis,and financial and economic analysis,the polycentric governance idea has been realized under its institutional analysis framework.The practical impact of the level of constitutionalism,collective choice,and operability achieved.Vincent emphasized the core meaning of the idea of polycentric governance with deconcentrated power and overlapping jurisdictions,which has an important and profound impact on the examples of polycentric governance under different political systems in different countries,whether it is different governance subjects or the application field of governance.It also reflects the practical value of polycentric governance.The idea of polycentric governance provides a good example for the management of public resources in the countries of the world.Regardless of whether it is a developed or developing country,from the process of restructuring the dual structure of citizen participation in the state and the market,polycentric governance plays an irreplaceable role.we must also recognize the limitations of Vincent Ostrom's polycentric governance thoughts,and the different limitations shown at the theoretical and practical levels.This is also the reason why it is worthy of attention in countries around the world today.At the same time,we must also recognize the limitations of Vincent Ostrom's polycentric governance,including the theoretical and practical limitations of the guiding role of China's national governance system and governance modernization and the value of reference.The world not only conducts in-depth research and development of polycentric governance ideas,but also attaches importance to the academic heritage of Vincent Ostrom,and applies his ideas to the field of public management research.All in all,the theory of polycentric governance builds a polycentric governance model under the three-dimensional framework of government,market,and society,emphasizing power deconcentration and overlapping jurisdiction between different levels of government,and advocating for the market,community organizations,citizensalso actively participate in the production and provision of public services,making co-governance of different subjects and community organization and citizen autonomy a normal state.At the same time,the idea of polycentric governance uses rules,contracts,trust and other tools of market,tier and network structure to promote the participation and integration of national capabilities at all levels,which not only changes the status of the government's single decision-making center,but also maximizes market participation.And the effective of citizen's autonomous governance,reflecting the theoretical and practical value of polycentric governance.The theory of polycentric governance provides a new solution to the governance dilemma,and achieves a multicentric organizational model of autonomous governance through an institutional analysis framework,which in turn makes the independent elements in the organizational structure coordinate and adapt to ensure that overlapping decision centers are in a polycentric order and multi-layered organization.Effective operation within the structure.Therefore,Vincent Ostrom's polycentric governance thought has its specific theoretical value and research significance.Drawing on the knowledge of different disciplines such as administration,politics,and economics,it is beneficial to strengthen the value expansion and explore depth.With the renewal of the times and social changes,polycentric governance ideas will be given new theoretical values and research methods,which will provide a more active guiding role for future governance practices.