An Analysis Of Government Responsibility In Government Procurement Of Public Cultural Services Based On Policy Texts

The government's purchase of public services originated from the New Public Management Movement in the 1980 s.It is the longest lasting and most far-reaching reform of government functions in this movement.The government's purchase of public services developed to the highest point in the late 1990 s and gradually became the mainstream public service delivery method.The government's purchase of public cultural services is a concrete manifestation of the government's purchase of services.In 2000,Chinese earliest government purchase of public services occurred in Shanghai,and this purchase occurred in the elderly care sector.With the rapid economic development and the progress of social civilization,the people's demand for public services is increasing day by day,and the areas for the government to purchase public services are also expanding,from the field of elderly care to the fields of "agriculture,rural areas and farmers",urban management,cultural education,and public health,Social security and other fields.The government's purchase of public cultural services is an important part of the purchase of public services.At the beginning of 2015,the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Modern Public Cultural Service System" proposed to "establish and improve a mechanism for the government to purchase public cultural services from social forces." In May2015,the State Council issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Government's Procurement of Public Cultural Services from Social Forces",which is my country's first central-level standard for government procurement of public cultural services Sexual documents.The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Guarantee of Public Cultural Services" passed in December 2016 provides guidance for local governments to purchase public cultural services,and also marks the rapid development of government purchases of public cultural services.Through content analysis of 15 relevant national-level policies,it can be clarified that the state encourages and supports the government's purchase of public cultural services.The government's purchase of public cultural services is conducive to improving the efficiency of the government's provision of public cultural services,but the implementation of government responsibilities is inseparable from the purchase process.The purchase of public cultural services does not mean a reduction in government investment,nor is it an excuse for the government to shirk its responsibility.Without the government's responsibility,purchasing public cultural services has become a kind of empty talk,which may even lead to the waste of public resources,the inefficiency of public services,and the breeding of power and money transactions.Therefore,this article focuses on the government's responsibility in purchasing public cultural services.Public policies reflect the behaviors,values,and ideas of decision makers,so this article takes the relevant policy texts of government purchases of public cultural services as the starting point for research.This article collects a total of 62 government purchases of public cultural services policy texts,of which 15 are national-level policies and 47 are local policies.Take the national-level policy as the content analysis group,adopt the content analysis method,use the NVivo11 software to analyze the content,extract keywords through word frequency query,content intensive reading coding and other means,and use it as a reference for formulating the framework.Regarding local policies as the content measurement group,the research is gradually carried out in accordance with the steps of formulating analysis frameworks,sample selection,defining analysis units,frequency statistical analysis,and data interpretation.By constructing a two-dimensional analysis framework of "government responsibility-purchasing process",it measures and analyzes the government responsibility concerns in the purchase of public cultural services by local governments.It is concluded that the local government pays insufficient attention to the hierarchical responsibilities of purchasing public cultural services,the understanding of response responsibilities needs to be deepened,the attention to legal responsibilities is polarized,professional responsibilities are limited to supervision and management,insufficient attention to output,insufficient attention to guarantee responsibilities,etc.Finally,make policy recommendations based on the conclusions.