测量乡镇治理--基于10省市20个乡镇的实证分析

Measuring Township Governance:An Empirical Study of 20 Townships in 10 Provinces and Cities of China

对"治理"概念的操作化和测量是国内学术界很少触及的研究课题。作者对如何测量中国乡镇层次的政府治理水平做了探讨,并根据田野调查收集到的数据,运用统计学的因子分析方法,对10个省市的20个乡镇的治理水平进行了量化评估。在此基础上,作者运用回归分析方法分析了影响乡镇治理水平的三个宏观因素:经济发展、民主发展和社会福利水平。分析结果发现,民主和社会福利水平会影响乡镇治理水平,但是经济发展水平却不会。对乡镇治理的量化测评在国内乡镇治理研究中属开拓性研究,测评结果也将有助于人们对乡镇层级的基层政府治理展开更为深入和系统的研究。

Few researches touched the measurement and operationalization of governance in Chinese academia. In this paper, the author distinguishes governance and government performance, and discusses the methodology of measuring govern- ance. Using the data collected from 20 townships of 10 provinces, the author tests the index system designed to meas- ure the level of governance at township level in China. Based on the empirical analysis, the author argues that the re- sults would contribute to future researches on this topic.