Project-Based Governance:Innovating the Mode of Public Mobilization and Community Governance
Public participation is important in community governance,but there is generally a lack of public participation in current community governance.Project-based governance views the public as themain implementers of routine governance tasks.It formulates"grassroots policies"to strongly incentivize residents with demands,scientifically decomposes governance tasks into smaller tasks and matches them with suitable residents to complete,and adopts evaluation combining fairness with flexibility,forming a set of effective mechanisms to mobilize public participation in community governance.In project-based governance,the community is responsible for the"two ends":formulating"grassroots policies"to obtain resources,decomposing and matching governance tasks,as well as evaluating how the tasks are completed.The public is responsible for the"middle":the actual completion of governance tasks.This division of governance is characterized by complementarity,enabling the government and the public to achieve"functional complementarity"in the governance process.Project-based governance differs from traditional administrative-led or resident self-governance models of community governance,as well as the model of community governance involving social organizations.It is a model combining multiple mechanisms such as administration and market.This new model of community governance can not only effectively incentivize public participation in governance and enable functional complementarity between the public and the government,but also facilitate the construction of the community's"collective morality".
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