Doing more among institutional boundaries: Platform‐enabled government in China.

The concept of Government as a Platform (GaaP) has recently encountered setbacks in practice worldwide. While existing literature on inter‐governmental collaboration has emphasized organizational restructuring and data sharing, this study argues that a pragmatic way to improve administrative efficie...

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Published in:Review of Policy Research Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 458 - 479
Main Authors: Zeng, Yu, Zhang, Quan, Zhao, Qi, Huang, Huang
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2023
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          Zeng, Yu
          Zhang, Quan
          Zhao, Qi
          Huang, Huang
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          School of Government and the Institute of Public Governance, Peking University, Beijing, China
          School of Marxism Studies and the Institute of State Governance Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
          School of Urban Economics and Public Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
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        China
        Information sharing
        Administrative efficiency
        Contact tracing
        Internet in public administration
        Authorship collaboration
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          Information sharing
          China
          Administrative efficiency
          Contact tracing
          Internet in public administration
          Authorship collaboration
      keyword:
        collaborative governance
        cross‐agency integration
        government‐as‐a‐platform
        platform governance
        platform‐enabled government
        gobernanza colaborativa
        gobernanza de plataforma
        gobierno como plataforma
        gobierno habilitado por plataforma
        integración entre agencias
        协同治理
        平台治理
        平台驱动的数字政府(platform‐enabled government)
        政府即平台
        跨部门整合
        collaborative governance
        cross‐agency integration
        government‐as‐a‐platform
        platform governance
        platform‐enabled government
        gobernanza colaborativa
        gobernanza de plataforma
        gobierno como plataforma
        gobierno habilitado por plataforma
        integración entre agencias
        协同治理
        平台治理
        平台驱动的数字政府(platform‐enabled government)
        政府即平台
        跨部门整合
      ab: The concept of Government as a Platform (GaaP) has recently encountered setbacks in practice worldwide. While existing literature on inter‐governmental collaboration has emphasized organizational restructuring and data sharing, this study argues that a pragmatic way to improve administrative efficiency in the absence of formal institutional change is to adopt an alternative model to GaaP: platform‐enabled government. Enabled by innovations of the middle‐tier platform, this new model of platform governance integrates the functions of distributed systems of multiple departments into a sequential workflow without the requirement of institutional reform or sharing proprietary data. To demonstrate how this model facilitates information flow across institutional boundaries and improves collaborative governance, we analyze horizontal, vertical, and public‐private collaboration using a diverse case study design. We examine administrative review, law enforcement, and contact tracing during the pandemic in the context of China. Our findings suggest accommodating institutional boundaries is a practical and effective approach to advance the digital government agenda in decentralized contexts.
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    language: English
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