非常规任务得以执行的“适配—对接”:基层减负的自下而上进路

“Adapting-Docking”in Unconventional Task Execution:A Bottom-Up Perspective of Reducing Burdens at Grassroots Level

随着基层政府职能与所处环境的变化,非常规任务与专职任务、专业化运作之间的张力也日益凸显。通过对东部某市X街道职能部门完成非常规任务的过程分析发现,基层政府可以通过“适配—对接”机制在平衡张力的基础上执行非常规任务。“适配—对接”机制包括贯通责任传导、适配主轴资源、整合串联要素,以及显性化对接任务四个步骤,在完成上级部署的许多创新性工作的同时,保证了基层政府内部主轴例行化体系尽可能少受到影响,从而在治理实践中保持了某种程度的平衡。“适配—对接”机制作为一种自下而上的减负策略,在一定程度上为基层行政体系提供了一个压力排解出口,然而,也会导致向上传达治理能力信号时的虚高,提高上级政府预期,从而在另一个维度上加大基层治理与竞争的压力。

With the change of the functions and environment of grassroots governments,the tension among un⁃conventional task,routine tasks,and specialized operations has become increasingly prominent.According to an analysis of the process in which the functional departments of Street X in a city in eastern China completed unconventional tasks,it is found that a grassroots government can execute unconventional tasks on the basis of balanced tension through an“adapting-docking”mechanism.The“adapting-docking”mechanism contains four steps:unblocking responsibility transmission,adapting principal resources,integrating series elements,and making docking tasks“explicit”.While accomplishing many innovative work deployed from higher authorities,it ensures that the routinized principal system within a grassroots government is minimally affected,thereby maintaining a certain degree of balance in governance practice.As a bottom-up strategy to reduce the burden,the“adapting-docking”mechanism provides a pressure outlet for the grass-roots administrative system to a cer⁃tain extent.However,it will also lead to a false height when capability signals are transmitted upward,raising the expectation of higher-level governments and thus increasing pressure on grassroots governance and competi⁃tion in another dimension.