Harmonious but Different: Cooperative Governance in Government Purchasing Public Services at the Grassroots Level
ZHENG Jia-si
Party School of Guangdong Provincial Committee of CPC/Administration Department, Guangdong Institute of Public Administration, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510003
Abstract：The relationship between the government and social organizations is the epitome of the relationship between the state and society. The empirical analysis of public service purchasing projects at the grassroots level in China shows that the government and social organizations have the same strategies but different goals, presenting the mode of “co-optation relationship”. Different from the Western society in which the two sides in the co-optation relationship are prone to be totally dependent upon or conflicting with each other, partnership relationship is common in the interaction between the government and social organizations in China. When the goals of the government and social organizations are different, some social organizations try to achieve a “delicate balance” between survival needs and autonomy through reducing resource dependence, improving independence, enhancing professionalism, strengthening core competitiveness, and taking regular flexible strategies. That is to say, social organizations can, to some extent, bargain on the basis of ensuring the realization of their own goals, and essentially make the interactive relationship develop towards partnership or cooperative relationship, rather than conflicting or completely dependent relationship, so as to form a relatively effective cooperative governance pattern between the government and social organizations.
郑佳斯. 和而不同：基层购买公共服务中的合作治理[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2019, 36(4): 116-124.
ZHENG Jia-si. Harmonious but Different: Cooperative Governance in Government Purchasing Public Services at the Grassroots Level. , 2019, 36(4): 116-124.
2019, Vol. 36 
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