Research On The Influence Of Dual-weakened Intergovernmental Structure To Cross-regional Public Service Collaborative Policy Under The Regional Integration Strategy

As China enters a new era of high-quality development,the regional development approach is transforming from the past administrative jurisdiction to a regional integration.Since the 18 th National Congress of the Party,China has been promoting regional integrated development strategy.Among them,the promotion of cross-regional public service collaboration and supply has a basic and pioneering role,and is included in the important content of the regional integration strategy.However,there are significant differences in the capacity and level of integration of different development gradient regions into the regional integration process.When the governments of two neighboring regions that carry out collaborative governance of crossregional public services are both in a shortage of financial resources and policy capacity and form a so-called dual-weakened intergovernmental structure(abbreviated as DWIS),they will inevitably fall into cooperation behavior due to insufficient internal resource-capacity performance.This will inevitably lead to inefficient cooperation behavior or ineffective policies due to the lack of internal resource-capacity performance,which will stall the overall regional integration process.Therefore,examining the influence mechanism of the DWIS on the policy process of cross-regional public service collaboration in the integration process will be helpful to unblock the breakpoints and blockages in the regional integration process,which is of great value to the construction of a new pattern of coordinated regional economic development with higher level and quality.Based on the perspective of public policy process theory,this thesis investigates the influence of DWIS factors on the policy process of cross-regional public service collaboration,taking the example of a new inter-regional cooperative public transport project between City A,a relatively less developed region in the Yangtze River Delta region,and its neighboring administrative jurisdiction,City H,as an example.The study systematically examines the occurrence of local governments’ participation in cross-district public service collaboration policy and its process mechanism from a two-dimensional perspective of financial resources and policy capacity,and explains the generation mechanism of local governments’ participation in cross-district public service collaboration policy behavior using an improved IAD model.In the case study,the adaptive linkage analysis framework of the policy process of cross-regional public service collaboration is applied from three dimensions,namely,goal constraint,motivation induction and discourse construction,to examine the policy process of cross-regional public service collaboration in a DWIS.Finally,we propose a breakthrough path and countermeasures for local governments to participate in cross-regional public service collaboration policy dilemma under the DWIS.This thesis concludes that(1)the two-dimensional variables of local governments’ financial resources and policy capacity tend to show homogeneous evolutionary characteristics,and thus form “strong-strong”,“strong-weak”,and “weak-weak”,the three typical differential horizontal inter-governmental cooperation structures.The stability and effectiveness of cooperation in the DWIS is questionable,thus posing an endogenous constraint on the policy process of crossdomain public service collaboration.(2)The effectiveness of cross-regional public service cooperation policy depends fundamentally on the decision-making and implementation process of cooperation among local governments based on different resource-capacity gradients.The key to the policy process of multiple cooperation networks is whether the inter-governmental cooperation structure based on resource-capacity elements can support the construction of effective adaptive linkage mechanisms.(3)The DWIS will lead to distortion of the “adaptive linkage” mechanism in the cross-domain public service policy process,thus creating difficulties in integrating goals at the initiation-decision-implementation-outcome stages of the cross-domain public service collaborative policy process.(4)The failure of cross-domain collaborative policies is caused by multiple obstacles,such as the failure of motivation induction and the incompatibility of multidimensional discourse systems,which result in the failure of crossdomain collaborative policies.(4)Suggestions for countermeasures to the dilemma of crossregional collaborative public service policies under the DWIS: constructing a mutually beneficial regional cooperation network;establishing an inter-governmental mechanism for cross-regional planning and joint development;constructing a flexible guarantee mechanism for intergovernmental responsibilities;constructing an effective cross-regional public service investment system;and coalescing a multi-dimensional discourse consensus in the cross-regional public service policy network.The project will establish a multidimensional discourse consensus in the cross-domain public service policy network,etc.Innovations of this thesis are as follows: The “resource-capacity” heterogeneity of local governments is considered as the core dimension affecting the governance of cross-domain public service collaboration,and the transmission mechanism of the DWIS blocking crossdomain public service collaboration policy dilemma is analyzed from the perspective of public policy process.The study provides a reference for decision making to facilitate the integration of low development gradient areas into the regional integration process.