Abstract
This paper uses the methods of System Generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM), mediation effect and linkage effect to investigate the relationship among social organization participation, government governance and the equalization of basic public services from 2007 to 2017 in China. The empirical results show that the participation of social organizations and improvement in the government governance can promote the equalization of basic public services. The government has a greater capacity to drive the equalization of basic public services, but the density of social organizations can serve as a mediator in the equalization of basic public services. The government governance and social organization density have a strong linkage effect, but the link with social organization quality is weak. Furthermore, a linkage effect is evident in medical and health care, public education, environmental protection, and public culture but not in public science and social welfare.
Highlights
Achieving the goal of equalizing basic public services is a requirement for improving the quality of life of residents and an inevitable choice for the transformation from a labor-intensive economy to a capital and technology intensive economy in China
The results show that social organization participation and the government governance have a significant positive impact on the equalization of basic public services, but the regression coefficient of the government governance is far greater than that of social organization participation
These results show that social organizations play a weaker role in promoting the equalization of basic public services and that their provision of basic public services is still in the early stage
Summary
Achieving the goal of equalizing basic public services is a requirement for improving the quality of life of residents and an inevitable choice for the transformation from a labor-intensive economy to a capital and technology intensive economy in China. China has established a national basic public services system that aims to cover all residents, but problems such as insufficient supply, low quality, and uneven development still exist [1]. How to enable different departments to accelerate the equalization of basic public services has become an important aspect of solving the main social contradictions in China and the focal point of supply-side structural reform. The private supply mode may be selective, and “market failure” may affect the supply efficiency of basic public services
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