How Does Multi-Agent Collaborative Governance Promote the Co-production of Public Services?——An Institutional Analysis Based on the"Village FA"in R County
The co-production of public services is crucial to building a people-centered social governance community.This study proposes a framework of multi-agent collaborative governance(MCG)in co-production and takes the"Village FA"in R County as a case study to explore the impact of MCG on co-production.The research reveals that"Village FA"represents a co-production model involving the participation of society,government,and market actors,which stems from the public's self-organizing behavior.MCG enhances the effectiveness of co-pro-duction through mechanisms of social incubation,market facilitation,agenda absorption,and administrative em-powerment.Co-production under MCG is the result of interactions among multiple levels of action stages with dis-tinct phase characteristics,thus the application of these mechanisms necessitates consideration of their adaptability.This study contributes by integrating co-production theory with collaborative governance theory,thereby expanding the theoretical framework of co-production.Furthermore,it provides an empirical illustration of the mechanisms and institutionalization process of co-production in Chinese context.
co-productionmulti-agent collaborative governanceIAD frameworksocial governance commu-nityvillage FA