The Documentary Politics of Local Government: A case study of county government 

“文件治国”是中国的特色。本文试图弥补过去研究对地方政府文件治理的忽略,提供了一种定量考察基层县域文件治理和上级地方政府间关系的路径。通过对个案县的分析,在部门层面,本文发现地方政府的两种动力下的文件生产,即满足合法性需求的符号性文件和用于实际工作需要的文件,并且两类文件呈现出一种"时段分离"的特征；在县域层面,本文发现了上级来文对县文件生产的影响在“领域”上的差别,文件配合了“经济人角色”的完成。最后,随着改革的进行,上级和下级在文件上的沟通接触逐渐增多,但是县域文件生产中来自上级文件的影响却在下降。

While the existing researches only examine official documents (wenjian) produced by the central government, this research focuses on county-level documents. From the perspectives of "legitimacy" and "efficiency", the author analyzes how county-level official documents are produced and their relations with documents from higher-level governments. Taking the local Public Health Bureau as a case, the author finds that there are two types of documents issued in a given year; one is pragmatic efficiency-oriented, and the other is symbolic legitimacy-oriented. These two types of documents show different features in sequence. In addition, the paper also finds differentiated impacts of higher-level documents on documents production at the county level; the county government is more active and more independent of upper instructions in "economic area" than in "social area". Finally, while the interactions between county government and higher governments have been increasing, the real impact of higher governments on the production of local documents has declined.

李林倬

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