The Holistic Construction of Primary-Level Governance Community Led by Party Building from the Perspective of Dynamic Process
Existing research on the role of Party building in leading social governance has primarily focused on structural and functional aspects, while dynamic process research remains insufficient. A diachronic analysis of single embedded cases reveals that Party building leadership generally plays a unifying role in primary-level social governance, and core mechanisms and key action strategies vary in various development stages. In the stage of resource integration, the actors with vague goals are loosely connected, and the Party organization lever-ages its convening power to realize the mobilization and aggregation of multiple actors through the authority mechanism;In the stage of joint action, the Party organization relies on its executive force to formulate formal rules and implement cooperative projects, and gradually a center-radiation hub-and-spoke network is formed;In the stage of value co-creation, the polycentric pattern of primary-level governance emerges and develops in-to a complex multilateral network, and the Party organization adopts an authorization approach to exert collec-tive power and to promote co-negotiation and empowerment. The positive intermediate outcomes achieved in each stage drive the construction of community into a virtuous cycle. Dynamic process perspective brings the time dimension into the study of primary-level governance community, which shows the specific process of Chi-nese-style collaborative governance and provides a reference for stage comparison and action selection in prac-tice.
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