China Public Administration Review

2026, v.8;No.26(01) 33-50

[Print This Page] [Close]
Current Issue | Archive | Advanced Search

Bureaucratic Exclusion: The Logic of Functional Aienation in Governmental Substantive Coordination Organizations

WEN Xuemei;WU Xuanfei;

Abstract:

The reform of governmental substantive coordination organizations, designed to enhance collaborative efficacy, paradoxically succumbs to functional alienation. Through a five-year longitudinal study of Urban-Rural Community Development and Governance Committee in City A, this research systematically reveals the dynamic adaptation logic and alienation mechanisms of governmental substantive coordination organizations. Findings indicate that the organization achieved phased activation of coordination functions via four-dimensional adaptive strategies: restructuring power hierarchies, aligning bureaucratic rules, innovating resource allocation and integrating performance consensus. However, when interacting with the bureaucratic system, these strategic adaptations manifest alienating tendencies: attenuation of authority transmission, ambiguity traps in responsibility reconfiguration, hierarchical barriers to resource integration and structural bias in performance incentives. These phenomena fundamentally represent the bureaucratic system's systemic exclusion of organizational innovations through its entrenched structural power. This research illuminates the inherent tension between structural inertia and organizational innovation within administrative reforms, offering critical insights for contemporary governmental institutional restructuring.

Key Words: government entity-type coordination organizations;functional alienation;bureaucratic exclusion;organizational adaptation;structural inertia

Abstract:

Keywords:

Foundation: 2021年度国家社会科学基金青年项目“社会网络视角下区域基本医疗卫生服务协调发展策略研究”(项目批准号:21CGL048)的资助

Authors: WEN Xuemei;WU Xuanfei;

References:

Accessibility
Information
Service
Key Words
The author of this article
Cnki
Share