National Governance Capacity Research Articles

Examining the role of national governance capacity in building the global low-carbon agricultural supply chains

The majority of related research has traditionally focused on examining the individual influences of national governance capacity and technological innovation on carbon emissions and economic performance, neglecting the effects and influence mechanisms on carbon efficiency within agricultural supply chains, which is not conducive to advancing a low-carbon transition that includes agricultural concerns. This study addresses these gaps by investigating the correlation between national governance capacity (considering voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and corruption control) and agricultural supply chain carbon efficiency and investigating the influence mechanism and mediating role of technological innovation. The relevant findings are twofold. 1) The impact of national governance capacity and its components on agricultural carbon efficiency follows an inverted U-shaped curve. 2) Technological innovation can act as a mediator between national governance capacity and select factors of voice and accountability, government effectiveness and regulatory quality to enhance agricultural supply chain carbon efficiency. The findings offer valuable insights for policymakers and managers in agricultural supply chain enterprises seeking to transition towards low-carbon agriculture.

A Brief Discussion on the Three Major Modules of University Financial Management and the Current State of Budget Performance Management

In the context of the new era, the national governance capacity and level have greatly improved. With the continuous deepening of fiscal management reform, fiscal management capabilities and levels are enhanced annually with the application of new technologies. Particularly in recent years, budget performance management has been increasingly demanded across various industries, with stricter performance requirements for public university financial and project funds. This paper, drawing from personal work experience, presents insights and views on the key aspects of university financial management, the current state of performance management, and the feasibility of specific operations, serving as a discussion point within the industry.

Research of Tax Governance on Urban Village Rent: A Case Study of X Village in Dongguan City

Tax governance is an important part of the national governance system and also a significant reflection of the national governance capacity. Using X Village in Dongguan City as a case study, this paper summarizes the tax governance issues in the urban rental market through field investigations and online data collection, as well as identifies the deficiencies in current laws, regulations, and policies. The research reveals that there are practical problems such as regulatory gaps and implementation difficulties, asymmetric market information, inadequate participation in social governance, and difficulty in coordinating conflicting interests in X Village. In response to these issues, the study explores corresponding paths for governance and proposes methods such as establishing comprehensive regulations and strengthening law enforcement, creating an information-sharing platform, enhancing participation in social governance, and balancing economic interests to address the tax irregularities in urban village rentals. This will help provide a solid foundation for the sustainable development of urban villages.

Research on Key Issues and Optimization Strategies for Emergency Response to Public Health Emergencies

Abstract The handling of every major public health event is a test of risk early warning ability and national governance capacity and will form experience and lessons in social governance. In this paper, we use the improved Apriori algorithm to mine the classification of public health emergencies, construct public health emergency response indicators, and carry out feature screening and indicator system construction. On this basis, the selected areas are analyzed using the Em prediction model based on Markov chains and Bayesian networks. In this paper, A city is selected as the research object, and the Em prediction model is first tested for its performance. By comparing it with the RBF model and the ARIMA model, the prediction model has the best accuracy, while the RBF model has the lowest accuracy. Then, the Em model was used to cluster the derived social risks in City A, and the clustering centers of four risk indices were derived, which were 0.202, 0.358, 0.492, and 0.644, respectively. Secondly, the public health of City A was graded, and the risk grades were classified into four grades: mild, moderate, severe, and extra severe. Finally, according to the classification of the level of public health event characterization, the analysis can be seen that environmental factors and plains have a greater impact on the occurrence of public health events.

How can the construction of social credit system in the context of digitalization empower grassroots governance? — A Case Study of “Moral Bank” in Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province

The 20th Party Congress report proposed to improve the grid-based management, refinement of services, information technology to support the grassroots governance platform, and improve the urban and rural community governance system [1, p. 24]. Grass-roots social governance is the basis of the entire national governance system, which concerns the vital interests of millions of people. At present, the government concentrates funds and material resources on infrastructure construction, and while the hardware environment at the grassroots level is improving, the construction of soft power is seriously lagging behind, and residents’ awareness of participation and public spirit are seriously lacking, so grassroots governance needs to be transformed. The basic function of social credit system is to form incentives and constraints for various subjects with the help of credit evaluation mechanism, so as to realize effective social governance. The establishment of social credit system can not only create an environment to serve social governance, but also provide important support for the modernization of social governance system and national governance capacity. Thus, under the strategic choice of building a comprehensive social credit system, combining an effective social credit system with grassroots social governance is an inevitable choice for China’s future development. Meanwhile, along with the accelerated development of digitization in China, the digitization of social credit system construction has become a powerful boost to promote credit governance. The digital transformation of social credit system can fully activate the path of credit information formation and collection in the traditional social credit system, optimize the operation mechanism and application scenario of credit evaluation mechanism, and thus maximize the functional utility of credit-enabled grassroots social governance. Based on this, this paper attempts to take the many challenges faced by grassroots governance as a logical starting point, take the “moral bank” in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province as a case study, trace how the construction of social credit system empowers grassroots social governance in the context of digitalization, explore the operation mechanism and practical effects of it, and extract corresponding insights.

Gross Domestic Products (GDP) is not a Proper Indicator of Measurement and Economic Power Comparison for Emerging Economies: A Judgement from International Distributions of Net Factor Income from Abroad

<p>Global distributions of net factor income from abroad (NFI) during 1990-2019 have witnessed that (1) the United States is the top one country accounting for 40% of surpluses of the global total, while a surge in China’s deficit with its GDP increase; (2) GDP growth in emerging economies has a price scissors with NFI deficits; (3) asymmetric NFI has covered up the severity of rich countries’ global arbitrages especially from emerging economies; (4) China’s economic power is exaggerated by the PPP-based GDP implemented by the World Bank. It concludes that (1) developing countries have paid for huge hidden cost for their emergence; (2) the statement of the United States suffering losses absolutely does not hold; (3) GDP is not a universal tool for measuring what matters. It suggests that (1) emerging economies countries should beware of the potential misleading of GDP on economic measurement and economic power comparison ; (2) GDP should be critiqued from the applicability perspective of economies’ types; (3) it is urgent to clarify some misjudgment and misleading concepts in the economic affairs surrounding the global value chain patterns; (4) the construction of national governance capacity in emerging economies should focus on “social infrastructure”, of which one of the important parts is an effective economic statistics system; (5) emerging economies should carry out the strategic layout of international economic statistics talents to enhance their soft powers.</p>

The Influence of Administrative Division Adjustment on Enterprise Earnings Management: A Quasi-Natural Experiment on City–County Consolidation

City–county consolidation is a common measure used by many cities to promote urbanization. This study develops the theoretical transmission mechanism, “city-county consolidation intensifies competition in the enterprise market improves the earnings management level of enterprises,” to analyze the influence of city–county consolidation on enterprises’ earnings management. An empirical analysis using the difference-in-differences (DID) method was conducted on data of industrial enterprises from 1999 to 2006. The results show that city–county consolidation promotes motivation for the use of enterprises’ earnings management. Second, city–county consolidation significantly intensifies enterprises’ downward earnings management behavior. Third, following city–county consolidation, non-state-owned enterprises are more strongly motivated to implement earnings management than state-owned enterprises. Fourth, city–county consolidation only significantly impacts the earnings management of enterprises affiliated with counties; it does not significantly impact the earnings management of those affiliated with central, provincial, or municipal governments. Therefore, this study provides empirical evidence from the perspective of market competition, which has important reference significance for urbanization development to improve national governance capacity by optimizing administrative divisions.

Securing the Environmental Water Requirements of Seasonally Ponding Wetlands: Partnering Science and Management through Benefit Sharing

Although environmental flow regime assessments are becoming increasingly holistic, they rarely provoke water managers to enact the adaptive water reallocation mechanisms required to secure environmental water for wetlands. The conditions that cause science-based environmental flow assessments to succeed or fail in informing the management of environmental water requirements remain unclear. To begin to resolve these conditions, we used process tracing to deconstruct the sequence of activities required to manage environmental water in four case studies of seasonally ponding wetlands in Mediterranean and Mesoamerican watersheds. We hypothesized that, when the flexibility and equitability of the socioeconomic system do not match the complexity of the biophysical system, this leads to a failure of managers to integrate scientific guidance in their allocation of environmental water. Diagnostic evidence gathered indicates that science-management partnerships are essential to align institutional flexibility and socioeconomic equitability with the system’s ecohydrological complexity, and thus move from determination to reallocation of environmental water. These results confirm that institutions e.g., river basin organizations need to be supplemented by motivated actors with experience and skill to negotiate allocation and adaptive management of environmental water. These institutional-actor synergies are likely to be especially important in water scarce regions when the need to accommodate extreme hydrological conditions is not met by national governance capacity. We conclude by focusing on benefit sharing as a means to better describe the conditions for successful science-based environmental flow assessments that realize productive efficiency in environmental water allocation i.e., recognition of multiple values for both people and ecosystems.

Analysis of the Construction of "Resilient City" in China from the Perspective of Foucault's Biopolitics

The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted the theoretical exploration of building "resilient cities" in China according to Foucault's theory of positive biopolitics. From the perspective of constructive biopolitics, China's anti-epidemic measures with a top priority on the protection of human life have achieved good results. Its measures against COVID-19 lead to effective epidemic prevention activities through constructive biopolitics, and discipline individual behavior to deal with exceptional states with the political effects of medical science. In the construction of social responsibility and ethical care for "resilient cities" in the epidemic and even post-epidemic era, China not only needs enough respect for life and health, carries out microscopic governance with cities as the unit to standardize individual behavior and social order, but also promotes the modernization of national governance capacity and governance system as a whole with sustainable development as the value goal.

Elite Participation’s Path on Rural Governance: A Case Study in China

As an essential part of national governance, rural governance is directly related to the modernization of the country. Under the background of the new era, as an important backbone of rural governance, the "rural elite" play a particularly significant role. Given that, this paper analyzes the self-assessment of comprehensive quality of rural elites by introducing the Entropy-TOPSIS method. Then from the four dimensions of institutional foundation, role perception, public expectation and external thrust, we construct a Structural Equation Model (SEM) for path analysis to explore how elites participate in rural governance and major influencing factors. The results show that with continuous improvement of the institutional foundation, the public would hold higher expectation for rural elites. Besides, the improvement of external thrust and the creation of a good external environment can be potential triggers for elites to play a positive role in rural governance. We believe that our results are of great theoretical and practical significance for accelerating the modernization of rural governance system and national governance capacity and realizing favorable governance in rural areas.

Research on National Audit Service and National Governance in the Context of Epidemic

The emergence of Covid-19 has posed great challenges to China's national governance system and capacity. As an endogenous "immune system" and an important institutional arrangement in national governance, national audit's goal and emphasis are constantly adjusted and changed with the needs of national governance. In this paper, from three aspects of national audit service, the essay discusses the necessity of national governance, under the background of the outbreak were analyzed deeply the national audit service governance mechanism design, summarized in epidemic prevention and control of the audit content and audit mode, put forward under the background of the outbreak the implementation of the national audit service governance path, perfect the methods of the national audit service governance, In order to make up for the shortcomings of national governance capacity and achieve the purpose of improving national governance capacity and improving national governance system.

Analysis of Reporting Verbs in Poverty Alleviation Reports in Chinese Mainstream Media--Based on China Daily

<i>China Daily</i> is a mainstream English-language media in China and The 13th Five-Year Plan period is the key period for China to eliminate poverty. In this period, there are many poverty alleviation related reports. This paper took the poverty alleviation news reports in <i>China Daily</i> during this period as the research object and build corpus with them. Through the reporting verb classification method proposed by Geis, this paper studied the frequency and proportion of positive and negative verbs appear in these reports and discussed the reasons. The study found that positive verbs accounted for more than 88% of the poverty alleviation-related reports in <i>China Daily</i>, taking up the majority of all reporting verbs, while negative verbs accounted for less than 12% of all reporting words. The results were also compared with previous related studies to analyze the political stance and self-constructed national image conveyed in politics-related reports in <i>China Daily</i>. The contrast between positive and negative verbs is explained with the help of Fairclough's three-dimensional analysis framework: description, interpretation and explanation. This study related the percentage of positive and negative reporting words with poverty alleviation achievements, China's sense of responsibility for the international community, and national governance capacity. At the end of the article, some shortcomings of this study were also suggested for futher study.

Analysis of the Path and Relationship between Movement-Style Environmental Governance and Political Potential Energy Integration and Isomorphic Transformation.

As a theoretical research framework for analyzing the governance of China, political potential energy is a concept with local discourse characteristics. Political potential energy highlights the comprehensive leadership ability of the Chinese Communist Party in the ruling process. It has profound political and dynamic connotations, and it is reflected in all aspects of the Chinese Communist Party's governance. The linkage logic between movement-style environmental governance and political potential energy suggests that the gathering of political potential energy and scientific placement are crucial. Political potential energy needs to be supported by certain rules and systems, and local autonomy must be fully respected. Therefore, by exploring the relationship between movement-style governance and political potential energy and the path of homogeneous transformation, these issues are worth exploring, which are related to the major theme of national governance capacity and governance system modernization.

The Practice Path of Government Governance Modernization

At the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, China clearly put forward the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, which can be summarized as “improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of national governance capacity and governance system.” For the modernization of national governance, the modernization of government governance is undoubtedly a key link. The practical paths to achieve the modernization of government governance mainly include: First, realize the servitization of government governance; Second, realize the legalization in government governance; Third, realize the cheapness of government governance; Fourth, implement the responsibility of government governance.

National Governance Capacity from the View of Comparative Political Economy – Based on the Fight Against COVID-19

At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 has blocked the pace of the world economic development. In the process of fighting the epidemic, different countries have formulated different policies and showed different effects from fighting it. After the end of COVID-19, the rapid social and economic recovery as well as their development require scientific and effective governance from all countries. From the perspective of comparative political economy theory, taking the COVID-19 epidemic as an example, this article points out the advantages and deficiencies of the national governance capacity, as well as seek ways to improve the national governance capacity.

Study on the restriction of civil rights and its guarantee mechanism in response to major public health emergencies--Based on public questionnaires during the epidemic

As a major public health emergency in the public crisis has serious harm to the development of society, for the modernization of our country and the development of national governance capacity, governance system put forward a great challenge, the need for all social parties to take effective measures to actively deal with. Different from the long-term response mode of full government responsibility, citizens, as the recipients of influence, are subject to certain restrictions on their rights. At the same time, the government should also provide reasonable protection for citizens' rights and maintain social harmony and stability. Based on the analysis of the public questionnaire on COVID-19, this paper discusses the rights restrictions of citizens in response to major public health emergencies and the corresponding rights protection mechanism of the government. These contents are of great significance for the prevention of public crises and how to solve the crisis after it occurs.

Innovation of Social Governance System Based on Multi-center Governance Theory

In management, functional departments are estranged from each other, coordination mechanism is not smooth, prevarication in case of trouble, inefficiency and decision-making departmentalization are frequent problems. The overall administrative system refers to the existence of an overall organization beyond the functional departments in the operation of the administrative system, which plays an overall coordinating role or forms a working mechanism of overall coordination. Building a multi-center governance system is conducive to promoting the innovation of social governance system in contemporary China, thus promoting the modernization of China's governance system and governance capacity. Whether or not to correctly handle social problems such as economic development and social equity, the growth of public demand and the shortage of public service, the expansion of public power and the shrinking of citizens' rights, is not only the basis for building a national governance system, but also the prerequisite for improving national governance capacity. This paper refines the value goal of social governance system from the perspective of national governance, and puts forward the implementation strategy of promoting the modernization of social governance system and governance capacity based on the theory of polycentric governance.

Study on the Modernization of Supervision System and Governance Ability of the Road Transportation Service Industry Based on Five Elements

In order to improve the modernization level of the supervision system and governance capacity of the road transport service industry and to meet the requirements of the modernization of national governance capacity, the problems existing in China's current road transport service industry supervision system was systematically analyzed from the five elements of the supervision system's value, rules, execution, objects, and performance evaluation. Based on five factors, problems in the supervision system of transportation services were analyzed. And the implementation path of the regulatory system and governance capacity was proposed referring to the experience of American government performance evaluation.

Masters of Disasters? An Empirical Analysis of How Societies Benefit from Corporate Disaster Aid

Corporations are increasingly influential within societies worldwide, while the relative capacity of national governments to meet large social needs has waned. Consequentially, firms face social pr...

Fiscal rules, financial stability and optimal currency areas

In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off between: (1) a common rule imposing co-movements in fiscal policy; (2) financial stability; and (3) financial integration. We provide empirical evidence documenting the existence of such a trade-off in the period ​characterized by the financial crisis and by the sovereign debt crisis.Then, we conclude that the intense fiscal rules that have been introduced in the Eurozone after the emergence of the debt crisis can reduce the capacity of national governments to deal with asymmetric shocks and can be incompatible with either free capital mobility and/or financial stability.