Research on China’s Social Governance Mode Transformation and Upgrading in Supply-Side Reform Field—From the Perspective of Public Management

Abstract

Supply-side reform has provided an advance institutional environment for the transformation and upgrading of social governance mode in China. In fact, supply-side reform requires the transformation and upgrading of social governance mode, while the latter is an inherent process of the former; supply-side reform and social governance mode’s transformation and upgrading are serving for each other as important impetus, making progress during their interaction. Based on the polycentric governance mode theory, holistic governance theory and social quality theory, the supply-side reform of government should proceed in social governance subject, system design and public service supply. In the context of supply-side reform, social governance mode transformation should stick to the principle of “addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division”: with the “addition effect” of the collaboration between supply-side reform and social governance mode transformation, the single-center social governance mode will be transformed to polycentric governance mode; with the “subtraction effect” of administrative intervention, the government-dominated governance mode will be transformed to government- guided mode; with the “multiplication effect” of institutional innovation, the campaign-style governance mode will be transformed into institutional mode; with the “division effect” of compulsory control, the control-stabilization governance mode can be transformed to social quality governance mode.