Research On Legal Administrative Capacity Of County-level Governments And Its Influential Factors

Well govern a county,then the nation would be stable and secure.As a link between China's urban and rural areas,county plays a leading role in national governance.Due to at the first line of governmental work and governing the country according to law,county-level governments are important executors of national laws,regulations and policies.Under the circumstance,whether county-level governments can effectively administrate according to law largely determine the overall situation of governing the country according to law and the overall process of construction of law,which puts improving legal administrative capacity of county-level governments in a more prominent and urgent position.However,investigating governance practices of county,there are still phenomena such as not complying with law,lax enforcement,and ignoring law,which discourage transforming governmental functions and constructing the government under the rule by law.Therefore,we can't help thinking:what happened to legal administrative capacity of county-level governments?What affect legal administrative capacity of county-level governments?According to these doubts,based on the realistic background of the modernization of national governance and governing the country according to law,taking rational bureaucracy and other classic organizational theory as the theoretical basis,combined with the legitimacy and validity of public administration,this study conducts an empirical research on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments.First of all,on the basis of theoretical analysis and literature review,this study attempts to construct a measured model of legal administrative capacity of county-level governments in combination with practical experience,and conducts a questionnaire survey in M county in the eastern region and N District in the Western Region to obtain samples.Further,as for the current situation and prominent problems of legal administrative capacity of county-level governments,this study attempts to explores the reasons from organizational level,and through the structural equation modeling test to explore the influence of organizational factors on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments.The result shows that the measured model of legal administrative capacity of county-level governments is effectively established.It is reliable and effective to reflect legal administrative capacity of county-level governments through four indexes:decision-making,execution,supervision and performance.In addition,legal administrative capacity of county-level governments is significantly affected by the situational factors and behavioral factors at the organizational level.Specifically,in terms of situational factors,goal clarity and organizational support have a significantly positive impact on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments,while normative culture and authoritarian leadership have no significant impact on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments.In terms of behavioral factors,teamwork and governmental response have a significantly positive impact on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments,while work slack and job destruction have no significant impact on legal administrative capacity of county-level governments.Therefore,this study finally proposes countermeasures to improve legal administrative capacity of county-level governments such as improving organizational goal clarity positively,increasing resource support,strengthening teamwork,strengthening governmental responses to people and society.