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The Applicability Of Network Governance Theory In Building Our Service-Oriented Government

Posted on:2012-07-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J YinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166330332995619Subject:Administrative Management
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The traditional administration theory is characterized by governance, and it mainly aims at pursuing an ordered and mechanical administration. With the society becomes more complicated, stratified, and diversified, new problems appear in the government administration. This leads the government to fall into difficulties, and thus, the traditional administration theory turns to be critical. Governance theory, which appears in the 1990s, has been raised concern by the academia. It holds that new governance principals should be drawn into administrative processes, and that the government should try to achieve its aim of governance in the interaction with the other social subjects. Network governance theory is the latest development within the governance theory, and it has essentially changed the beliefs of governance. This theory requests new designs and reconstruction in the system of governance, building multicenter public administration system to realize its functions in elasticity organization. In so doing, the problems brought by the traditional governance system, such as the features of ossification and inelasticity, and the bad feedback to the citizens' requirements, would be avoided. Meanwhile, through a strategy of cooperation, the policies of network governance would be carried out by encouraging non-governmental organizations and citizens to learn from each other, building a cooperative system between them. This system helps to improve the legitimacy of the administration as well as building mature civil culture. Service becomes the main function of the government in the network governance. Instead of a distributor of authority or the mere provider of public products, the government serves as an important participant in the process of governance. Government functions as a coordinator, negotiator, and mediator, who plays a significant role in helping the citizens declare and fulfill their public interests. Thus, service becomes the primary and fundamental concern of the government as well as a request from the developing society. This, in turn, would promote the building of a new service-oriented government.Our country has decided to build the service-oriented government as early as 2004. This government system is a new mode with multi-and-comprehensive aims, and it involves various value demands, such as fairness and justice, public services, public participation, and public responsibility. The values of the service-oriented government permeate through the system of the governance mode, requiring the mode to reform and innovate. Thus, the network governance, aiming at realizing the public interests and universal consensus of the community, is equipped with strong power. This paper begins with the theory of network governance. Through illustrating its meanings, features, and operation mechanism, it mainly discusses the network governance mode as a new way of public administration based on our current social background. This paper considers that adopting the mode of network governance and building effective social relations are important tactics in realizing the governance of the service-oriented government. It analyses the emergency of the network governance in building a service-oriented government through three aspects: the change of international environment, the transform of domestic society, and the development of administrative theory. Also, this paper analyses the feasibility of the network governance in a service-oriented government from the angles of value rationality, instrumental rationality and our current social foundation. It is for sure that as an adventives administration theory, governance theory should be adopted based on the conditions of our country. In order to achieve anticipated effects, we should critically absorb its effectiveness in building our service-oriented government with a careful analysis of its applicability in China.The first part describes the backgrounds of the network governance theory, and analyses its characteristics and operating mechanism. Also, it proposes the main standpoint of the network governance theory and defines it according to the pervious studies of the theory.The second part analyses the applicability of network governance in our service-oriented government. On the one hand , it analyses the current situation, such as the international and domestic social change, and the development of administrative theory, faced by the service-oriented government. It proves the mode of the network governance that should be adopted in the service-oriented government. On the other hand, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the network governance mode adopted by the service-oriented government through the prospects of value rationality and instrumental rationality .The third part puts forward the methods of realizing the service-oriented network governance. This paper, based on the current condition of our country, expounds how to found the network governance mode in building the service-oriented government through three aspects: creating the governance ideology, founding the basic system, and fulfilling the functions of the government .
Keywords/Search Tags:network governance, the service-oriented government, civil society, civil organization
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