Integration Paradox:Research on the Integration Governance of County Governments under the Centralized Allocation of Administrative Power
County governance is an important foundation and internal component of the modernization of national governance.In recent years,with the promotion of resource allocation to rural areas,supervision sink-ing,and modernization of national construction,the central government has attempted to regulate the grassroots governance system by vertically adjusting the distribution structure of administrative control power and setting governance goals and processes from top to bottom.Under the high attention and strong incentives from superi-ors towards governance goals,the unified governance will of county-level governments to horizontally integrate administrative resources and power allocation continues to strengthen.However,as more and more central work is carried out within the county,the county government has to continuously establish various deliberation and coordination institutions to cope with multiple complex governance tasks.These leadership groups and coordi-nation institutions are nested with each other,showing a trend of re-stratification.The unified will and leader-ship attention of the county government are further consumed and dispersed,essentially weakening its autono-mous ability for integrated governance.Therefore,with the launch of the multi-center work mode at the grass-roots level,county governments have gradually fallen into the integration paradox of horizontal dependence on political mobilization,centralized governance resources,and strengthened integration efforts,and vertical at-tention generalization,incentive failure,and governance suspension.Under the adjustment of central-local relations,the key to transcending the paradox of integration lies in reshaping the conventional work system and returning to the subjectivity of county-level governance.
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