Cross-Bureaucratic Rationality:Understanding the"Re-standardization"Turn of Grassroots Governance
Standardization,as an important tool of modem state governance,is the normative support for the orderly operation of the government system and the promotion of effective grassroots governance.Facing the reality of the dynamic and changeable society,the standardization practice driven by bureaucratic rationality often face the difficulties of inaccurate governance objectives and ineffective governance,which triggers the"re-standardization"turn of grassroots governance.Based on the rational endowment of modem bureaucratic organizations,this paper constructs an analytical framework of"governance turning-rational expansion-effective governance",and takes the operation specification of the village-level reconstruction project in Hanggai Town,Zhejiang Province as a typical case to explore the logical relationship between government rationality and re-standardization.We finds that the"re-standardization"led by grassroots government not only regards standardization as a unity of both instrumental rationality and value rationality,but also takes into account the bureaucratic management requirements and social governance needs,and integrates formal norms and habitual experience.On this basis,through open standard design,flexible standard implementation and timely standard revision,re-standardization reshapes the standard specifications that adapt to the grassroots scene.From the enrichment of value connotation to the standardization practice,re-standardization is actually the connection and integration of the Weber's bureaucratic rationality and the grassroots social governance rationality,and it is the presentation of the complex rational characteristics of the government to deal with complex scenes and pursue effective governance.Based on this expanded rational endowment,it may reinterpret the rationality of grassroots governments and the logic of their independent actions,and enrich and expand the grassroots governance picture in the process of Chinese modernization.
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