"Passive Autonomy":The Blockages of Local Government Innovation and the Mechanism Explanation
Local government innovation is an enduring issue in the field of public management,and most of the existing research focuses on the dynamics of local government innovation and the mechanisms behind it,but little attention has been paid to the phenomenon of local government innovation blockage in contemporary China.Through observation,we found that there are different patterns of local government innovation stagnation,which can be broadly categorized into primary stagnation,diffusion stagnation and continuous stagnation.These types of blockages are generated by both institutional and actor reasons.This article analyzes the resistance mechanisms of local government innovation in contemporary China with examples from Chinese local government innovation practice,and finds that legitimacy pressure and risk aversion,inertia reinforcement and path dependence,and resource constraints and allocation capacity are the main mechanisms affecting local government innovation blockage.On this basis,the article puts forward the new concept of"passive autonomy"and refines three propositions.In the process of promoting local government innovation,it is necessary to adopt a more precise governance strategy according to the characteristics of different types of blockage and the logic of occurrence.
local Government innovationinnovation blockagespassive autonomy
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