Holistic Governance: New Choice For Local Government Operations

After the mid-20th century, there have been two waves of governance reform in the world: bureaucratic system model changes to entrepreneurial model of New Public Management; entrepreneur model changes to multi-governance models after the public management movement. Multi-governance models include:the new public service, polycentric governance, network governance, holistic governance......In these governance models, holistic governance overcome the fragmentation of governance difficulties, prompting the government for better implementation of social management and public policy. Therefore, governments increasingly attach importance to holistic governance, as one British scholar has said:"Exploration of the holistic governance of public service reform in the 21st century is the most distinctive feature in the 21st century, as the late 20th century’new public management’or’reinventing government’ brought Change as well. "Currently, academic research on the holistic governance levels are mostly theoretical introduction and review, and less positive from the perspective of micro and examine the overall governance in the country-specific implementation. In this paper using the empirical method, select the UK Greater London to fragmentation of the state of governance as the starting point. Greater London fragmentation of governance and the resulting performance of the thorny issues. On this basis, the change from the concept of governance, governance function and structure of the integration, information resource sharing isometric study the specific implementation of the overall governance situation, the effectiveness of governance and problems of doing an overall assessment. And in the end further pointed out that the implementation of the holistic governance of Greater London in England is not an isolated case, local governments in the United Kingdom overall situation and challenges facing closely related to its exploration of the British local government operations a new way, and to Local Government on a few points of enlightenment: a focus on strategic, focusing on integration and coordination, enhance transparency, in order to promote our local government’s to "good governance. "The innovation of this paper is to study the perspective of innovation. Currently, most of the academic governance of the whole still in the theoretical research, this paper advanced Internet technology to collect the last decade the annual report of the British central government, the Greater London Authority’s annual report, all relevant laws and regulations, Local government reform process and timetable, annual survey of civil society organizations and other governments on the reform of the Greater London area the relevant information, mainly from an empirical point of view, the overall governance of the study and analysis of the situation.