关键词: 政府机构改革, 国务院组成部门, 增设, 类型

Abstract:

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the State Council has adjusted and reformed its constituent departments. These actions have played important regulating and safe-guarding roles during critical periods of the modernization process. Using the organizational ecology theory and the organizational structure change model, we have summarized six “addition” methods—transfer, formation, merger, upgrading, splitting and new establishment—using vertical historical analysis. Given the driving factors of organizational change and a horizontal comparison of the six methods, it is more likely that the reform of the State Council's constituent departments in the future will be through transfers, formations, and mergers. And it is unlikely that the Council will adopt the methods of upgrading, splitting, or newly establishing. A more detailed and categorical study of the addition of government institutions will help us understand the internal logic and general rules of China's administrative reform. It will also contribute to the smooth advancement of Chinese-style modernization.

Key words: governmental institutional reform, constituent departments of the state council, additions, types.