The Research Of Institution Supply Behaviors Of County-level Governments During Transition Period In China

This dissertation researches institution supplying behaviors of county-level governments from economics point of view. Since reform policy implemented, China nowaday faces unprecedented double transitions in fields of economy and society, and it becomes one of the biggest proving grounds for institution reform in our modem world. Theoretically being a best principal parts of institution supply, county-level governments practice institution supplying behaviors slowly with more hesitations and oscillations. Whether the institution supply of county-level governments during transition period is powerful or not will dramatically determined the development process of county economy and society, and macroscopically becomes the important basis of healthy, stable and harmonious development of economy in a giant developing country. The necessary premises and conditions of ensuring effective institution supply from county-level governments are playing the functions of subjective initiative of county-level governments in institution supply, building institution regulations of county economic development according with "all factors in harmony ", and constructing a sound institution preventing behavior dissimilation by county-level governments with "snatching hands" and "unreasonable hands". The cores of this dissertation are thoroughly analyzing interior mechanism and exterior influential factors of institution supply behaviors by county-level governments during transition period, and open the "interior black box" for "sunshine operation" of institution supply by county-level governments.Three main issues will be researched by this dissertation: (1) Why are the county-level governments the principal parts of institution supply during transition period? (2) What is the rootstock of puzzledom of institution supply by county-level governments during the transition period? (3)What are the influential factors of institution supply behaviors by county-level governments during the transition period? Based on above problems and reviewing relevant research productions, this dissertation builds a theoretical framework of institution supply behaviors by county-level governments during the transition period with core contents of behavior economics, applying a method combining theoretical analysis with demonstration research and adopting overall multi-theories. The structure of this dissertation is presented as follows:Chapter 1 Introduction presents problems and research aim and contents. It introduces that during the transition period the county-level governments face contradictory circumstances of "big majordomo" in theory and "small daughter-in-law" in reality. Based on objective comments and reviewing relevant research results, this chapter proposes that less thorough investigation were done for microcosmic running mechanism of institution supply behaviors of county-level governments during transition period which results in severe restrictions of understanding the origin of institution supply behaviors of county-level governments and the extending of breakthrough thought. Finally chapter 1 introduces research methods, contents, innovations and limits.Chapter 2 proposes an analytical theoretical framework for institution supply behaviors of county-level governments during transition period based on relevant theoretical basis. The basic hypotheses are given and it becomes logical jumping-off point, then an analytical theoretical framework for institution supply behaviors of county-level governments during transition period is built, key concepts are defined and research procedure is presented.Chapter 3 analyzes the theoretical functions and status of institution supply of county-level governments during transition period. It presents why during transition period a giant country needs institution supply and corresponding theoretical explanations are given, then proposes that county-level governments are not only the principal parts of institution supply but also the most important parts. The practical facts prove that the miracle of Chinese economic growth is highly related to gradually reform process of discharging power and benefit by central governments for local governments. During a long period of time from now on, the principal parts of institution supply are county-level governments, it is decided by the situation of China. County-level governments play undisplaceable key roles in institution reform process.Chapter 4 analyzes the initiative conditions of institution supply of county-level governments during transition period from macroscopical, middle, microcosmic point of view. Those initiative conditions determines the goal, speed and space of institution supply of county-level governments, and exert great material influences on institution supply behaviors of county-level governments.Chapter 5 presents rootstock of behavior dissimilation and inequilibrium of institution supply of county-level governments during transition period and possible paths of evolution are discussed. An analytical tool of spacial matrix for institution supply of county-level governments is built and used for analyzing possible multi-sets of institution supply of county-level governments and the fundamental reasons for behavior dissimilation and inequilibrium of institution supply of county-level governments during transition period. Based on above analysis, concrete feasible optimized selective paths are proposed.Chapter 6 constructs a mechanism model of institution supply behaviors of county-level governments during transition period from microcosmic point of view. This chapter builds an ACM model, i.e. a mechanism model of institution supply behaviors of county-level governments, from behavior economics point of view, and presents how aspiration, capability and maneuver influence the institution supply behaviors of county-level governments. Based on ACM model, influential factor model with aspiration and capability is analyzed in detail, and selections of three universal institution supply strategies are provided. This Chapter is the core of the dissertation.Chapter 7 demonstrates the aspiration of institution supply of county governments being affected by factors such as apperception profit, apperception risk, supply atmosphere, exterior competition, public opinion, public appeal, and so on. Our research results show that apperception profit is an important factor influencing the aspiration of institution supply of county governments, and exterior market changes have obvious influence on it. If the uncertainty of institution supply is very high or there exists political risk, the aspiration of institution supply of county-level deputy will be less. Because of the unreasonable evaluation mechanism for public appeal nowadays in China, the influence by public appeal on aspiration of institution supply of county governments is negative. The public opinion will lead the direction of aspiration of institution supply of county governments. During the present transition period, the castes have promoted, not blocked the process of institution supply of county governments.Chapter 8 presents a demonstration research on institution supply capability of county-level governments during transition period. Based on microcosmic data from Guangdong province, the influential factors of institution supply capability of county-level governments are analyzed with demonstration, and a conclusion is drawn that institution supply capability of county-level governments contain three dimensionalities: learning factor, strength factor and innovation factor. Learning factor is the first important influential factor of institution supply capability of county-level governments, the second is strength factor (including power and financial influential factors), the final is innovation factor (influential factor of innovation capability).Chapter 9 is an experiential analysis for strategies of institution supply by county-level governments during the transition period. This chapter takes three institution supply cases of land-piecing adjustments in Xuwen county, "san xian strategies" in Dongguang and enterprise property in Shunde as original analyzing data, summarizes the general strategy for three different institution supply by county-level governments, namely executing principle, bringing principle and antecedent principle. Through further comparison and analysis, the core mechanism for the three institution supply is epurated, namely formal institution arrangements and the potential institution requirments of the mass are tightly combined together, institution arrangements match the environment changes, and a kind of exogenous institution arrangement is transformed to embeded endogenetic institution.Chapter 10 presents a comprehensive typical case. Based on a case of rural economic institution supply behavior of Xuwen county in west of Guangdong province, the true mechanism of successful institution supply behavior by its government is revealed through institutionatical investigation of reform process of rural economic institution in Xuwen county. This chapter proposes that during the transition period county-level governments must plentifully learn and adopt civilian innovation intents for chasing benefits, actively lead, support and promote civilian inductive institution reform, and must play a good role in their own institution reform, find out the combination point with requirement of civilian inductive institution reform and finally promote the institution supply.Chapter 11 contains research conclusions and policy suggestions. It summarizes the important conclusions and viewpoints of this dissertation, presents and proves the development directions and concrete measures for optimizing the institution supply of county-level governments during transition period, including aspiration of institution supply of county-level governments based on abroad public opinion, improving the learning capacity of institution supply of county-level governments, reasonably adjusting relations between central and local governments, confirming the legal status of principal parts of institution supply of county-level governments, and so on.