Abstract: Digital technology integration within the community governance system can be classified into four categories: enabling-empowerment, enabling-digit, empowerment, and disembededness. While enabling-empowerment is often the most effective model, it can inadvertently devolve into a disembedded state. An effective strategy for enhancing digital community governance involves constructing a meta-governance field to reconfigure community governance, positioning the government as the central entity that guides and regulates the actions and interests of all stakeholders involved in the digital transformation process. Despite the government’s predominant role, the strategic approaches of grassroot self-governing organizations, digitally-equipped platform enterprises, and the general public (as the embodiment of governance goals) also significantly influence the trajectory and ultimate form of digital technology integration within the community governance system. Consequently, this paper investigates the operational mechanism of digital technology application in the community governance system under the meta-governance field. It further establishes a tripartite evolutionary game model, led by the local government and involving neighborhood committees, platform enterprises, and the general public. This model aids in analyzing the stability of the integration mode of digital technology.
The research posits that grassroots governance’s digital aspects are upheld by a structure described as “leading + main body”, where the core comprises “one main body and multiple elements”. The term “leading” in “one main body” pertains to grassroot governments leveraging digital channels to fulfill public functions and enhance public services. The “main body” in “multiple elements” refers to grassroot self-governing organizations, platform-based enterprises, and the general public, all of which engage in public decision-making and implementation via digital governance platforms. Based on this understanding, the stability of digital technology integration within community governance systems in the field of meta-governance is analyzed by constructing an evolutionary game model. The game participants are identified as the neighborhood committee, platform enterprise, and general public to ensure the model’s applicability and accurate abstraction of real scenarios. Initially, the cost-benefit matrix of the tripartite evolutionary game model is enumerated, taking into consideration the costs and benefits of various participation strategy combinations among the three parties. Subsequently, the stability of this system is analyzed by examining the costs and benefits of the game participant’s strategy, constructing a replicator dynamic system, and calculating the equilibrium solution’s eigenvalues. Lastly, through a simulation analysis of parameter assignment in the model, the paper further elucidates the impact of factors such as participation cost, benefit allocation, and policy support on the sustainability of the three strategies.
The findings indicate that: (1)Costs significantly influence the strategic preferences of all participants. The willingness of platform enterprises to engage in community digital governance is the most significantly swayed by participation costs, whereas the public is the least influenced by these costs. (2)Increased explicit benefits can, to an extent, bolster the participants’ enthusiasm. The neighborhood committee’s strategy evolution exhibits a high sensitivity to explicit benefits, while the platform enterprise and general public show a comparatively low one. (3)The income distribution scheme can impact the process and type of digital technology integration. Specifically, it can influence how digital techniques are incorporated into the community governance system, but will not lead to disintegration. (4)Policy support is crucial for the enabling-empowerment pattern, although the enabling-empowerment patterns remain stable even in the absence of policy support. Further exploration of interactions between multi-subject strategies and local governments is also suggested.

Key words: meta-governance, digital governance, community governance, embedded mode, stability analysis

摘要： 数字技术嵌入社区治理体系分为增能赋权、数字增能、数字赋权和数字脱嵌四种模式。增能赋权效能最佳,实践中却容易走向数字脱嵌。构建元治理场景重塑社区治理格局,强化政府对社区治理数字化转型过程中主体行为及利益关系的引导和调节功能,是实现增能赋权型社区数字化治理的有效策略。本文以元治理为分析场域,在剖析数字技术嵌入社区治理体系运行机制的基础上,通过构建地方政府主导下居委会、平台企业和社会公众共同参与的动态演化模型,分析数字技术嵌入社区治理体系的稳定性。结果表明,各方策略偏好受到各自参与成本的影响较为明显;数字技术带来的显性收益的增加可在一定范围内提升三者的积极性;收益分配方案可影响数字技术的嵌入进程和嵌入方式;政策支持是促成增能赋权治理模式的必要条件,政策缺位时数字增能和数字赋权也可形成稳定模式。本研究对于如何提升数字技术嵌入社区治理体系过程中各主体参与积极性及地方政府政策有效性具有一定启示意义。后续研究可进一步探索多元主体策略组合与地方政府间的互动机制。

关键词: 元治理, 数字治理, 社区治理, 嵌入模式, 稳定性分析