“被技术治理”:基层组织负担的生成机制

"Being Managed by Technology":The Generation Mechanism of the Burden of Grass-roots Organizations

以S县C镇社会治理办公室为案例,从技术治理视角阐释基层组织负担的生成机制。研究发现:上级组织应用治理技术存在多重惯性,致使基层组织成为“被技术治理”对象;基层组织需应对繁杂的程序性事务和技术性要求,常处于注意力超载的工作情境中,组织负担由此生成。作为回应,基层组织采取象征性治理、形式化治理和选择式治理等策略予以应对,导致基层治理效能难以提升。“被技术治理”的形成根植于官僚制的负功能和不均衡的县乡关系之中,也与我国基层治理目标和方式的转变密切相关。深入推进基层减负工作需与基层治理体制机制变革相结合,将减负与赋权、增能、激励等关联起来,在持续为基层减负的同时助力基层治理的现代化。

Taking the Social Governance Office of C town in S County as an example,this paper explains the generation mechanism of grass-roots organization burden from the perspective of technological governance.It is found that there is multiple inertia in the application of governance technology by superior organizations,which makes grassroots organizations the object of"being governed by technology".Grass-roots organizations need to deal with complicated procedural affairs and requirements,and are often in the working situation of attention overload,resulting in organizational burden.In response,grass-roots organizations adopt symbolic governance,formal governance and selective governance,which makes it difficult to improve the efficiency of grass-roots governance.The formation of"governed by technology"is rooted in the negative function of bureaucracy and the unbalanced relationship between counties and townships.It is also closely related to the transformation of the goals and methods of grass-roots governance in China.The further promotion of grass-roots burden reduction needs to be combined with the reform of grass-roots governance system and mechanism,and link the burden reduction with empowerment,capacity-building and incentive,so as to help the modernization of grass-roots governance while continuously reducing the burden for the grass-roots.