Study on Social Management System Reform in Urban Fringe Area Based on Urban Service Boundary

Abstract

This paper selected the water supply and police fire protection in Sandun Town, Hangzhou as the research object, and the Urban Service Boundary (USB) as the core theory, the Institutional Analysis and Development framework (IAD framework) as the train of thought. Through studying on the public goods and services supply, the policy recommendations were put forward to solve the social problems in urban fringe area; moreover, social management system reform in urban fringe area was explored based on the Urban Service Boundary. Through research, this paper found that the local government, enterprises and residents had differently cognitive to the supply of public goods and services such as water and police fire protection, which could lead to the necessity of information communication among the three, and the communication cost bigger. The distance from urban center, population density and revenue together made Sandun Town have no advantage to incorporate into the USB. Moreover, the design of system rules isn’t sound in Sandun Town. And then, this paper put forward the following recommendations: perfect the communication mechanism, broaden the supply channels and change the role of actors; strengthen renovating urban fringe area and improve the conditions and attributes of community; optimize the design of system rules, and make them coordinate and promote each other. Finally, based on USB-IAD framework applied to urban fringe area, this paper reached the following conclusions: what made the social problems in urban fringe area such as public goods and services supply arise and be solved? The direct cause was the actors’ interactive action in the action situation enclosed within an action arena; the conditions and attributes of community, system and rules were restraining factors; and the root cause was the Urban Service Boundary which could interact with the conditions and attributes of community, system and rules.