Primary-level Government in Urban Risk Governance:Relationship of Power and Responsibility and Collaborative Mechanism
China's urbanization process has entered a new stage of development,and cities have be-come the gathering place of modern risks.The generation and evolution of modern risks show highly com-plex characteristics,which calls for the primary-level government to play a frontline role in urban risk man-agement.In the national governance system,the primary-level government has the functional orientation of integrating the vertical Party and government system and the horizontal primary-level society,carrying the dual functions of implementing the national risk management policy task and meeting the public's risk management needs.In the practice of urban risk management,the imbalance of power and responsibility of the primary-level government frequently occurs,and the relationship between power and responsibility of the primary-level government has become the focus of theoretical attention.From the perspective of power and responsibility allocation structure,the top-down power and responsibility allocation mechanism has shaped the power and responsibility relationship of the primary-level government,and the power and re-sponsibility inversion has become the reality of the imbalance of power and responsibility of the primary-level government in urban risk management.From the perspective of power and responsibility operation mechanism,the bottom-up responsibility requirements of risk governance have intensified the imbalance of power and responsibility of urban primary-level governments.The process of allocation of power and re-sponsibility in urban risk governance is subject to the structure of the relationship between blocks,and the contradiction between blocks constitutes the structural cause of the imbalance of power and responsibility of urban primary-level governments.To explore the construction path of the power and responsibility coordi-nation mechanism of primary-level governments,it is urgent to start from three aspects:establishing the principle of power and responsibility consistency,building a collaborative government organizational struc-ture,and guiding multiple subjects to take coordinated actions,and improve the full-cycle governance mechanism of risk research and judgment,early warning,response and follow-up.We will improve the risk management system that moves from decentralization to coordination and multi-agent participation,and comprehensively improve the modernization level of risk management of urban primary-level governments.
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