Intergovernmental Game of City-County Merger under the Perspective of Whole-Process:Longitudinal Tracking Based on the Administrative Division Adjustment in S District of Z City for 30 Years
City-county merger does not happen overnight,and the intergovernmental game that accompanies it profoundly affects the process and effectiveness of the adjustment.Although there was a wealth of relevant re-search,they mainly focused on the ex-ante analysis of motivations or ex-post performance evaluation.There is no research has systematically summarized the logic of intergovernmental games and their profound impact throughout the different stages of city-county merger.This paper builds on existing research and empirical facts,observes the process of city-county merger from a historical rather than a point perspective,and constructs a process analysis framework for understanding the intergovernmental game of city-county merger and its adaptation from three lev-els:the authority of superiors that cannot be defied under the organizational logic,the autonomy of subordinates that cannot be fully obeyed under the incentive logic,and the stability and development that must be balanced under the goal logic.Based on this,through a longitudinal tracing of the process of administrative division adjustment in the last 30 years of Z city S district,it is found that the governments at the upper and lower levels follow different game logics to make strategic choices,which in turn form different degrees of obedience,cooperation and even con-frontation patterns,profoundly affecting the process of regional integration and development.This also indirectly in-dicates that city-county merger does not directly promote the integration and development of the newly created dis-tricts with the main urban areas.Through the above work,the thesis not only opens the"black box"of the interg-overnmental game in the whole process of city-county merger but also expands the applicability and explanatory limits of intergovernmental relations research based on a process perspective.
Administrative Division AdjustmentCity-County MergerVertical Intergovernmental RelationsRegional Integration Development
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