Trend and Hot issues of Governance Research in China from the Perspective of Government Funding ——Based on the National Social Science Fund Project from 1991 to 2021

Abstract

Government funding is an important way to promote the academic development, discipline construction and cultivation of scientific research talents in China. Based on the data of 3911 projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation from 1991 to 2021, this paper analyzes the development process and evolution of the hottest topic of "governance" research. The research shows that governance research in the field of social sciences in China has experienced through three stages: sprout development, quasi-localization and full-speed climbing. The academic contribution rate and competitiveness present a "Pareto’s law" distribution in terms of disciplines and regions. The research topics mainly focuses on the modernization of national governance system and capacity, rural and ethnic region governance, grassroots governance of urban communities, collaborative governance of ecological environment and network security governance are carried out in the core clusters. Social governance, national governance and collaborative governance are the most concerned research topics at present.