"Party-Led Collaboration"in China's Grass-Roots Governance:Practical Types and Their Comparative Analysis——A Case Study of Rural Vitalization in M City
As an innovative mechanism for the governance of complex public affairs,grass-roots collaborative governance has been widely concerned.To achieve collaborative governance,China's grass-roots party organi-zation system plays a core role.For the grass-roots collaborative governance under the leadership of the Party,the existing studies mainly construct a single mechanism model from the perspective of corporatist governance at the overall level,presupposing the Party's role as an all-powerful integrator,ignoring the Party's choice of differentiated and appropriate roles according to the situation and the different types of collaboration.lherefore,the objective of this paper is"bring the Party into collaborative governance",and make a theoretical explana-tion for the"Party-Led Collaboration"in China's grass-roots governance.Based on the theoretical analytical framework,this paper extracts the two key variables of resource dependence relationship and governance insti-tutional arrangement and classifies the"Party-Led Collaboration"into three types:"integrated type","guiding type"and"coordinated type".Then,a comparative case study of the rural revitalization strategy practice in M City was conducted.The analysis reveals that in the process of grass-roots collaborative governance,the Party will appropriately use the multiple roles of overall leader,bridge organizer and coordination supervisor.And the Party will play the function of the role in the key collaboration process of trust construction,dialogue and com-munication,negotiation and contracting.The research also finds that the Party realizes its function and effective operation through the core mechanism of"interest-value integration",including"interest coupling","value linking"and"fair manufacturing".From the perspective of collaboration degree and realization difficulty,the three models of"Party-Led Collaboration"and their shared discretion show a"stepped"sequence relationship.Therefore,the"Party-Led Collaboration"is an accurate expression of the Chinese"meso—level"mechanism of grass-roots governance in the Chinese context,which provides useful inspiration for China to comprehensively promote the rural revitalization strategy and achieve high-quality development,and has certain significance for promoting the localization of collaborative governance theory and expanding the research on the relationship be-tween the Party and collaborative governance.
"Party-Led Collaboration"Grassroots Party OrganizationsCollaborative GovernanceDiscretion SharingRural Revitalization