Changes in the External Environment Differences in Government-Society Interaction and the Evolution of Social Governance Community Types
Against the background that social governance community building has become a new highlight of grassroots governance in China,most of the existing researches regard the external environment as a given contextual condition,ignoring how changes in the external environment shape government-society relationship and community types.Adopting an organizational ecology perspective and taking District H as a typical case,this study examines the differences in the process of government-community interactions and the evolution of different community types under different external environments.It is found that when the external environment is relatively certain,the government dominates the linkage and the community passively performs tasks,forming a task-driven passive-adaptive community;when the external environment is highly uncertain,the government is busy responding to the challenges of the social surface,and the community's autonomous linkage is stimulated,forming a community self-help active-responsive community.This also means that the external environment change will trigger the change of community type from passive adaptation to active response,which requires the government to realize flexible governance in order to better cope with the challenges of uncertainty in the post epidemic era.