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    15 March 2026, Volume 42 Issue 2
    The Tension between Supply and Experience: Evaluation and Optimization of Mobile Government Services from the Whole-Process Perspective of “Efficiently Handling One Thing”
    Zheng Lei, Chen Yichun
    2026, 42(2):  4-19. 
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    Mobile government services are a critical vehicle for advancing the reform of “Efficiently Handling One Thing.” Theyalso play a significant rolein improving government service efficiency and expanding the inclusive provision of public services. Based on the public value theory and the perspective of the whole-process experience of users in handling services, this paper presents a four-year consecutive experiential evaluation of China’s mobile government services in five dimensions: accessibility, usefulness, ease-of-use, trustworthiness, and desirability. Although the overall performance of China’s mobile government services has improved steadily in recent years, structural contradictions remain, with a significant tension between government supply and user experience. The government focuses on supply-side indicators such as application development service launch and function expansion, but users confront inaccessibilityimpracticalitypoor usabilityinsecurityand unwillingness to reuse. These problems become acute in the insufficient service inclusiveness for vulnerable groups, difficulties in completing some services entirely on mobile devices, cumbersome and inefficient processes, weak perceived security, and low intention of continued use. Essentially, these issues stem from the ineffective coupling of the supply-side output logic and the demand-side outcome logic in the process of public value creation. Therefore, to achieve the reform goal of “Efficiently Handling One Thing” on mobile terminals, systematic efforts should be made to enhance service inclusiveness, improve service effectiveness, optimize process convenience, strengthen usage security, and increase user preference for continued use, so as to drive a profound transformation of mobile government services from supply-driven to experience-oriented.

    Resource Dependence, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Evolution of Digital Government Services: A Case Study of Guangdong Province
    Zheng Yueping, Huang Yuanyuan, Zhou Qianru, Chen Yao
    2026, 42(2):  20-38. 
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    Understanding how digital government services evolve is essential for strengthening governance capacity and ensuring service accessibility. Existing research has explained cross-regional variation in digital government service development in terms of local government capacity and governance environments. What has had limited attention isa longitudinal perspective of this evolution that focuses on the role of public-private partnerships in that process. Drawing on Resource Dependence Theory, this study examines the evolution of digital government services in Guangdong Province and the mutually constitutive relationship between public-private partnerships and service configurations. The findings show that stage-specific goals shape local governments’ resource demands, which in turn influence their choice of private partners and partnership arrangements as they balance resource acquisition with the preservation of governance authority. These arrangements shape the resource base and allocation of service development, thereby producing different service configurations across stages. When existing configurations no longer fit new goals, governments reassess resource needs and adjust partnership arrangements, driving further service evolution. This study offers practical insights into sustaining effective public-private partnerships in digital government.

    TowardsValue Co-Creation: Practical Pathways of Government Services Empowering Industrial Growth ——An Investigation of H City’s “Four-Chain Integration”
    Yi Longfei, Xiong Xiaomei
    2026, 42(2):  39-53. 
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    Innovation in the government service system has become a crucial component of local governments’ efforts to create a world-class business environment. An analysisofthe “four-chainintegration” model in H CityZhejiang Province—encompassing theintegrationofthe industrial chain, productionfactor chain, enterprise demand chain, andvalue-addedservicechain—reveals how government-enterprise value co-creation can be achieved through value-added reforms. Theresearchfindsthat a reformlogicdrivenprimarilybyenterpriseneedsformsthedynamicmechanismforvalueco-creation. Meanwhile, a scientific evaluation and orchestration of production factors within the industrial chain acts as the catalytic mechanism for co-creation.The optimization of production factors through value-added services ultimately constitutes the realization mechanism for value co-creation.This analysis not only theoretically explains the logical approach of government-enterprise value co-creation through government service tools but also provides empirical evidence for a new paradigm of government services.

    The Theoretical Implication of “To guide social transformation with self-reform” and its innovation for the new era
    Yang Jun, Hu Xinyue
    2026, 42(2):  54-66. 
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    “The most powerful productive force is the revolutionary class itself.”Classical Marxist theory explains that the Communist Party, by virtue of its advanced nature, bears the historical mission of leading the “true revolution” of social revolution. The Communist Party of China has greatly enriched and developed this theoretical principle in its practice of leading the Chinese revolution. The theoretical implication and original contributions of “to guide social transformation with self-reform” have formed in the new era andare visible in three aspects. First, it profoundly summarizes the basic connotation of “social revolution”, realizing a “revolution in the scientific terminology” of social revolution theory.Second, it creatively proposes the iconic core concept of “the Party’s self-reform,” forming an important thought on the Party’s self-reform. Third, it adheres to upholding fundamental principles while innovating, pointing out the fundamental tasks, central work, inevitable path, and fundamental driving force of the social transformation led by the Party in the new era, as well as the practical requirements for advancing the Party’s self-reform.

    The Practical Dilemmas and Implementation Paths for Enhancing the Leadership and Governance Capacity of Grassroots Party Organizations
    Chen Songyou, Zhou Fangtong
    2026, 42(2):  67-79. 
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    Grassroots governance is the foundation and source of national governance. Its effectiveness directly impacts the level of national governance. Enhancing the ability of party organizations to lead grassroots governance is the inevitable choice for consolidating the long-term ruling foundation of the Party. It is also a practical methodfor strengthening the functions of grassroots party organizations and a requirement for building a social governance community in the new era. As an important subject of grassroots governance, party organizations should lead the construction of grassroots governance capacity. However, several factors make it difficult for the current governance capacity to match the requirements of modernization. They includethe need to further improve the self-construction of grassroots party organizations, the mismatch between resource endowment control and standardized governance methods, the prominent talent shortage problem in grassroots party organizations, and the insufficient establishment of coordination mechanisms among multiple governance subjects.. Given these issues, we can instead focus on enhancing the organizational strength of grassroots party organizations to strengthen the power of governance subjects. This means focusing on integrating talent elements and training to promote innovative governance capabilities.The goal is to build institutionalized and standardized governance that is more capable of implementing policy... Finally, by centeringthe people’s needs,improving the effectiveness of governance implementationcan become a powerful tool for the promotion of good governance at the grassroots level.

    Organizational Training: The Core Mechanism for the Development of CPC Cadres
    Xu Dongtao
    2026, 42(2):  80-92. 
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    The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always attached great importance to cadre team building, regarding it as the key to the development of the Party and the State. Substantial research on cadre teams and cadre promotionsanalyzes individual cadres. This ignores the organizational factors behind cadre promotion and growth—organizational training, whichis a concentrated embodiment of the CPC’s party management of cadres. It is not only a political practice with Chinese characteristics, but also a symbolic concept of selecting and appointing China’s talents. Systematically combing the concept, connotation, basic methods, core objectives and main contents of organizational training, clarifying the research context and theoretical disputes of organizational training, and deepening the understanding of the laws of organizational training are important for understanding the construction of the CPC’s cadre teams and the advantages of China’s system of selecting and appointing talents. Organizational training always revolves around the central task of the Party, constantly adjusting, upgrading, and keeping pace with the times. Looking ahead to the future, further research on organizational training should focus on institutions, processes, and international comparisons.

    Social Linkage: A Pathway for Party-Building to Lead Social Governance in Emerging Sectors
    Peng Bo, Cheng Ruiwen
    2026, 42(2):  93-106. 
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    The increasing fluidity, diversity, and boundary-blurring characteristics of emerging sectors pose significant challenges to traditional Party-building models. This has resulted in insufficient organizational coverage, functional malfunction, and weakened political identification. Building on a review of the evolution of Party-building models, this article introduces a “social linkage” perspective to examine the adaptive transformations required of grassroots Party-building. Drawing on a process-tracing study of the “Comprehensive Coverage Campaign of Party Organization System in Emerging Sectors” in City S, it proposes an analytical framework of “socially linked Party-building.” The findings show that this model operates through a threefold mechanism—organizational embedding, functional adjustment, and reciprocal identification—to reconstruct the multidimensional linkages between Party organizations and emerging sectors.Organizational embedding restructures organizational networks to achieve structural extension and establish institutional linkages; functional adjustment optimizes functional performance, enhancing service provision and governance responsiveness to strengthen interactive linkages; and reciprocal identification fosters political sentiment and a sense of community, thereby deepening affective linkages. Compared with traditional models, socially linked Party-building places greater emphasis on the social relations generated through Party-society interaction.With that comes higher levels of flexibility and adaptability in cross-boundary embedding, resource integration, and identity construction.This offers a more resilient theoretical framework and practical pathway for grassroots Party-building in the new era.

    Integrated Governance: Mechanism and Efficacy of Party Building in Empowering High-Tech Enterprises —A Mixed-Methods Study Based on the National High-Tech Zone in W City, H Province
    Song Daolei, Mei Wenting
    2026, 42(2):  107-123. 
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    By focusing on Party-building practices within high-tech enterprises located in one of China’s first national-level high-tech zones, and using a mixed-methods approach with an exploratory sequential design, this studysystematically examines the influencing factors, operational mechanism, and governance efficacy of Party-building in empowering enterprise development. Drawing on grounded theory, the research constructs a theoretical framework of integrated governance centered on three core dimensions: political leadership capacity, organizational embeddedness, and value cohesion. The influencing factors identified in the qualitative phase are subsequently translated into quantitative measurement dimensions.The effectiveness of the integrated governance model is empirically tested through multiple linear regression analysis. The findings indicate that in enterprise contexts characterized by strong market orientation and technological intensity, grassroots Party organizations integrate the Party’s leadership with corporate governance by leveraging political leadership capacity, organizational embeddedness, and value cohesion. Through this mechanism, political guidance and market efficiency become mutually adaptive.Enterprises are then enabled to strengthen political resilience while simultaneously promoting innovation-driven development.

    Health Vulnerability of Older Adults: Element Analysis, Generation Mechanism, and Governance Strategies
    Feng Tieying, Hei Xiaoyan
    2026, 42(2):  124-140. 
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    Healthy aging for an ultra-large older population is an important practical issueand a challenge in the process of China’s modernization. From a risk perspective, examining the health vulnerability of older adults provides new insights and approaches for health governance. Based on the IPCC vulnerability framework and the SOR model, this study constructs an analytical framework for the generation of health vulnerability in older adults, systematically analyzes the core components, explains the underlying mechanisms, and proposes governance strategies. The formation of health vulnerability in older adults is the resultof the combined effects of health risk exposure, risk sensitivity, and risk response. Specifically, environmental risks and individual risk behaviors constitute risk exposure.Sensitivity encompasses physiological, psychological, social, and economic aspects.Risk response refers to coping capacity and coping behaviors. Given the roles and interconnections of these elements, the formation mechanism of an older adult’scomprises four sub-mechanisms: risk inducement, risk sensitization, disturbance response, and vulnerability evolution. The study also proposes an integrated governance strategy covering micro-, meso-, and macro-level systems, along with specific governance pathways.

    How Childcare Policies Achieve Their Objectives: A Study on Government Intervention Pathways to Resolve the Supply-Demand Imbalance in Childcare Services
    Shi Renbing, Wang Xindi
    2026, 42(2):  141-156. 
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    Against the backdrop of negative population growth intertwined with hyper-ageing, China has introduced a series of childcare policies aimed at addressing public difficulties in childcare and promoting a moderate increase in fertility rates. However, during implementation, the well-intentioned design of these policies has, to some extent, produced unintended consequences. The underlying reasons warrant thorough investigation. Consequently, this paper employs grounded theory methodology to conduct a three-tier coding analysis of data extracted fromZhihu, Weibo, Rednote, and Tiktok platforms. Analyzing the current state of childcare policy implementation from both individual and institutional perspectives, it explores the underlying causes of the supply-demand dilemma within childcare services through the lens of policy execution theory. This reveals the micro-mechanisms behind the gap between policy objectives and practice, enabling childcare policies to achieve their intended outcomes. Findings indicate that the alienation of policy objectives, imbalanced resource allocation, and conflicting interests among implementing entities ultimately trap target groups in a triple bind: escalating childcare costs, spatial-temporal constraints, and social trust deficits. This triggers threefold resistance to childcare services, resulting in significant divergence between policy aims and practical outcomes. Governments must address this supply-demand impasse by reconfiguring policy objectives, restructuring resource allocation, and fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration.