Abstract
Smart government is an important means of optimizing government management, improving the government decision-making capacity, and pushing forward the public service. When the smart government process applies, the dire straits of collaborative governance among the different participants could not be ignored usually caused by maximizing their profits. Based on the current research, this paper introduces the blockchain technology into the smart government system and establishes a smart government platform architecture. Meanwhile, to analyse the evolutionary and stable strategies of the three parties under the blockchain technology, the evolutionary game model including functional departments, local governments, and end users as the main players is established on account of the bounded rationality. By examining the “blockchain + government service” in Beijing with the systemic dynamics theory, this paper changes the influencing factors simulated by changing the parameter assignment, to determine the evolutionary stable equilibrium under different external conditions. The results show that local government supervision plays a leading role in the process of collaborative governance of smart government based on blockchain technology; meanwhile, effective cost control is a key factor affecting the evolutionary stability strategy (ESS). Besides, the “decentralized” structure, “distrust” architecture, and “precision” mechanism of the blockchain are verified for the effect of the evolution process. Among them, precision service and flat management improve the possibility of collaborative governance, but the impact of the trust mechanism is not obvious. Therefore, the collaborative governance model of smart government based on blockchain technology is loaded with far-reaching significance for promoting the modernization of China’s governance capacity and governance system.
Highlights
As science and technology are leaping forward and the concept of modern governance is advancing, government departments should take the strategic measure of optimizing their decision-making ability and elevate their social service level by exploiting emerging technological means to develop smart government affairs
In the collaborative governance model of smart government with blockchain technology, the collaborative governance bodies involved include functional departments, local governments, and end users. e starting point of each subject is different, so its basic idea of participating in smart government affairs is based on different decision-making behaviours attributed to different positions and perspectives of all parties in the process of platform operation
Compared with the existing online government affairs operation model, the smart government affairs collaborative governance model with blockchain technology is conducive to building a data credibility mechanism and solving the problems of trust uncertainty, nontampering, and traceability, while effectively mobilizing the enthusiasm of multiple participation in governance, forging a novel situation of collaborative governance of multiple subjects, and achieving the cooperation mode of “government-led, market operation, and multiple participation.”
Summary
As science and technology are leaping forward and the concept of modern governance is advancing, government departments should take the strategic measure of optimizing their decision-making ability and elevate their social service level by exploiting emerging technological means to develop smart government affairs. E concept of using novel technological means to assist government governance decision-making and optimize public service capacity has been rapidly recognized worldwide, gradually forging a global upsurge of pursuing and delving into the development of smart government affairs.
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