我院熊易寒教授、李辉研究员在Social Sciences in China（《中国社会科学（英文版）》 ）2019年第4期分别发表了“Technology Transforms Politics: Internet +Government Services and the Transformation of the Grassroots Power Structure” 【技术改变政治：互联网+政务服务与基层权力结构的变迁】与 “How Information and Communication Technology Promote the Building of Clean Government: A Case Study of Two Local Clean Government Reforms in China” 【互联网信息技术与廉政建设：中国两项地方廉政创新改革的案例研究】的论文。
熊易寒教授的文章
Technology Transforms Politics: Internet +
Government Services and the Transformation of
the Grassroots Power Structure
Xiong Yihan
Social Sciences in China, 2019Vol. 40, No. 4, 173-192
Abstract
Since the rise of the Internet in China, China’s local governments have actively used Internet technology to facilitate public administration and public services. What impact, then, have different types of social media had on local governance? This paper, based on years of investigation of J Town and L Sub-district in Shanghai (2012-2018), finds that Internet technology has profoundly transformed the grassroots power structure. Before the rise of the Internet, the grassroots power structure included local government, activists and the masses; in the age of Weibo and home owners forums, grassroots opinion leaders rose, becoming an impressive social force that local government could not afford to ignore; in the age of WeChat, however, the influence of grassroots opinion leaders declined, as local government can interact directly with the masses through WeChat public accounts and WeChat group chats, with the network technology becoming a tool for micromanagement. These three stages correspond to three types of government characterized by limited mobilization, consultation, and user-friendliness, respectively.
文章链接：https://doi.org/10.1080/02529203.2019.1674042
技术改变政治：互联网+政务服务与基层权力结构的变迁
熊易寒
Social Sciences in China, 第40卷, 第4期（2019年）, 第173-192页。
摘要
互联网在中国兴起之后，中国的基层政府积极运用互联网技术来辅助公共管理和公共服务。那么，不同的互联网形态对基层治理会产生什么样的影响？本文对上海市J镇和L街道的跟踪调查（2012—2018年）发现互联网技术深刻改变了基层权力结构：在互联网兴起之前，基层权力结构包含基层政府、积极分子和群众三个圈层；在微博和业主论坛时代，草根意见领袖崛起，成为基层政府不得不重视的社会力量；在微信时代，草根意见领袖式微，基层政府通过政务公众号和微信群与群众发生直接联系，网络技术成为精细化管理的工具。这三个阶段分别对应的是有限动员型政府、协商型政府和用户友好型政府。
李辉研究员的文章
How Information and Communication Technology Promote the Building
of Clean Government: A Case Study of Two Local Clean Government
Reforms in China
Li Hui
Social Sciences in China, 2019Vol. 40, No. 4, 85-105
Abstract
In recent years, many studies have begun to explore the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in promoting clean government, pointing out that it will make government more honest. However, existing research pays more attention to the correlation between the two factors, and few studies analyze in depth and in detail what the key ICT mechanism is that promotes the construction of clean government. Our case study of two innovative local clean government reforms in China has found that the key mechanism is improving the availability of information. Specifically, the reforms included two interrelated mechanisms: reducing the information asymmetry between vertical levels of government and bridging information barriers between government departments at the horizontal level.
文章链接：https://doi.org/10.1080/02529203.2019.1674037
互联网信息技术与廉政建设：中国两项地方廉政创新改革的案例研究
李辉
Social Sciences in China, 第40卷, 第4期（2019年）, 第85-105页。
近年来，许多研究开始探讨信息技术的应用在促进政府廉政方面的作用，并且指出信息通信技术将提高政府的清廉程度。但是已有的研究较多关注两个因素的相关性，很少有研究深入细致地分析信息和沟通技术到底通过什么样的关键机制来促进政府的廉政建设。本研究通过对中国两项地方廉政创新改革的案例分析发现，其中的关键机制在于提高信息的可获得性。具体来说包括两个相互关联的机制：降低纵向政府层级间的信息不对称程度，以及穿透横向政府部门间的信息壁垒。
