17 July 2024, Volume 23 Issue 4

  

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  Centralized Governance and Decentralization Risk of Online Fraud in the Digital Era

  2024, 23(4): 5-18.

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  The proliferation of online fraud presents a novel and pressing challenge requiring governance in the digital era. Drawing upon the theory of the ″ technology-organization″ relationship and risk governance, we have developed an analytical framework, which is capable of addressing the evolving landscape of online fraud and corresponding shifts in governance strategies. Using Province A as a case, we reveal that online fraud often operates with a decentralized organization structure and crowd sourcing model, resulting in a cluster of decentralization risks. In response to this, crime governance relies on adhocracy organizations and digital platforms to enhance effectiveness, by maintaining a centralized governance model. The governance challenge lies in how centralized governance can adapt to decentralization risks, which becomes a critical issue in the realm of social security governance in the digital era.
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  How the Five-Year Plans Improve Adaptation of Emergency Management

  2024, 23(4): 19-33.

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  Five-year emergency management plans can be the main tool for improving the long-term adaptability of emergency management. Based on the theory of emergency management adaptation, there are three mechanisms to improve the adaptation of emergency management through emergency management plans. The first is the force unification mechanism, which achieves the top-down integration of emergency response forces through the establishment of key tasks and enhances the adaptation of response to extreme emergencies. The second is the integration development mechanism, which promotes the integration development of natural disasters and accidents and enhances the adaptation of response to com pound disasters. The third is the guiding and constraining index mechanism, which enhances the adaptation of response to accidents and natural disasters by preventing the occurrence of major work safety accidents and improving the prevention capability of natural disasters through the decomposition of work safety and natural disaster targets. An empirical analysis of 28 national and provincial ″14th Five-Year Emergency Management Plans″ verified the existence of the above three mechanisms. In order to improve the adaptation of emergency management through planning, emergency management plans must better reflect the realities of local risks, strengthen the construction of comprehensive emergency support capacity, and emphasize the balanced development of work safety and natural disaster prevention and mitigation.
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  Behavioral Emergency Management under the Risk-Disaster-Crisis Continuum

  2024, 23(4): 34-50.

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  ″Behavior + ″ is a cross-disciplinary trend that has received more and more attention in re cent years. Emergency management, as a discipline for knowledge production in the risk society, also needs to facilitate interdisciplinary research with behavioral sciences. The current research scope of behavioral emergency management is dispersed under many different disciplines, which makes it difficult for researchers and practitioners to understand the current development of existing research, and hinders inter-disciplinary dialogues and collaborations. Based on the ″Risk-Disaster-Crisis Continuum″ framework, a localized theory of emergency management in China, this study integrates the current state of behavioral emergency management, and identifies and reviews the key topics of behavioral research in each field. The review finds that behavioral research in the risk, disaster, and crisis domains exhibits the characteristics of the three research traditions, including the ″political-social″, ″engineering-technology″ and ″organizational-institutional″. The study points out that future behavioral emergency management research needs to pay more attention to disaster and crisis scenarios, the behaviors of multiple actors such as governments and experts, incorporation of interdisciplinary research methods, and cooperation between academia and practice to improve the applicability of research results.
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  Organizational Sinking Downwards: Multiple Forms and Action Logic of Officials′ Sinking Downwards in Crisis Management

  2024, 23(4): 51-64.

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  Crisis management often faces such extreme situations as sudden changes in the external environment of the organization and internal functional failures, thus the regular bureaucratic system has to be adjusted and optimized to adapt to the highly abnormal external environment. The officials′ sinking downwards is an important way to realize the shift of management focus downwards and strengthen the localized administration in an emergency state. From the perspective of organizational degree and target, S City has formed four types of organizational sinking downwards. With the integration of identity embed ding, organizational embedding, incentive embedding, and technology embedding, the embedded governance of officials′ sinking downwards has been realized. This unconventional management process re engineering can be quickly transformed into a positive practical driving force, such as guiding resources downwards, realizing efficient organizational mobilization, promoting the coordination of tiao / kuai relations, and building a crisis management community. The officials′ sinking downwards in crisis management is essentially a hierarchical organizational mobilization that integrates the Party and government ad ministration. The basic logic of its organizational operation is centralization, shift of focus downwards, primary level empowerment, and flexibility and efficiency. With the support of the dual-layered organizational structure of the Party and government administration, the authority of political mechanisms and the flexibility of administrative mechanisms are effectively integrated.
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  The Interactive Logic of Weibo Anti-corruption from a Vertical Accountability Perspective: A Machine-Learning Analysis of Big Data

  2024, 23(4): 65-82.

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  Cyber anti-corruption, an important supplementary anti-corruption channel in China, has recently developed new features. The problem exposed is increasingly complex and multifaceted. Netizens become more polarized, and it is easy to trigger social resentment. While cyber anti-corruption has been a new challenge for the government, little is known about its new development and features. We employ a vertical accountability perspective and a machine-learning approach to analyze big data from Weibo texts, by analyzing the Beiji Nianyu-case. Local government′s quick responses can relieve citizens′ concerns and attention during the opinion expression period. Nevertheless, in the second stage, local government′s implicit responses may trigger citizens′ dissatisfaction and irrational behaviors, while central media may proactively interact with citizens. Central media strengthen the interactions with citizens at the peak, increasing local government′s responsiveness. It uncovers the complicated interactions of the central and local governments and citizens, and provides practical implications for local governments to enhance their governance in cyber anti-corruption.
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  Big Data Anti-corruption from the Perspective of Value Co-creation

  2024, 23(4): 83-98.

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  Value co-creation focuses on the pluralism of governance subjects and the citizen orientation of governance results, and emphasizes the resource exchange and interaction among government, market, and citizens to enhance people′s satisfaction of governance results. Big data anti-corruption can not be achieved without the participation of multiple subjects, while value co-creation is the basic premise for enhancing the joint efforts and consensual results of anti-corruption. Under the value consensus guidance of a ″people-centered″ and ″open anti-corruption system″, value co-creation practice should be carried out by promoting the internal coupling of organizations, innovating anti-corruption means, promoting citizens′ joint production, and building trust relationships. Finally, we will achieve people′s satisfaction and enhance the public spirit. From the perspective of intrinsic motivation for value co-creation, the balance of public and private values is the premise of consensus on the value of big data in anti-corruption efforts. The construction of a governance network is the core of forming a big data anti-corruption value network, and the construction of citizen participation and trust relationships is the key and guarantee of the symbiotic practice of big data anti-corruption value.
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  Logic of the Rule of Law in Safeguarding the Privacy of Public Officials in the Context of Digital Surveillance

  2024, 23(4): 99-112.

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  As a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution, privacy rights imply self-determination and non-interference, and should be respected and guaranteed by the State. Public officials, as ordinary citizens, should also enjoy the privacy rights. The current exploration of digital surveillance measures can be categorized into measures based on different purposes, measures based on different methods, and measures based on different targets, in which the acquisition and disclosure of personal information, the analysis and comparison of personal information, and other behaviors affecting the targets of surveil lance fall within the scope of the protection of the privacy rights. Although the privacy rights of public officials need to be limited for reasons of public interest, such as public scrutiny, there is still a right to re quest protection against excessive interference by the State, including excessive direct intrusion and leak age of information by the State. The boundaries of restriction lie in the legitimacy of the end, the appropriateness of the means and the necessity, and the balance between the benefits gained from regulation and the benefits lost from restriction. In this regard, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of the privacy rights of public officials from such three aspects as reservation of law, technical governance, and responsibility regulation, to realize the balance between individual interests and public interests.
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  The Ethical Risks of Artificial Intelligence Embedded in Integrity Governance and Their Prevention

  2024, 23(4): 113-124.

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  The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology has brought out important opportunities and technical support for the innovation of integrity governance. The embedding of artificial intelligence in integrity governance is of great significance in both practice and value. However, the embedding of artificial intelligence into integrity governance may cause a series of ethical risks such as data ethical risks, fairness damage risks, technology dependence risks, duty failure risks, and supervisory power abuse risks. The ethical risks are the result of the interaction and coupling of multiple factors in the practice of integrity governance. It follows the ethical risk generation path like ″formation - derivation- diffusion - consequence″. In order to effectively prevent ethical risks, it is urgent to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and integrity governance through the research and development of AI technology, establish an ethical review and evaluation mechanism before applying AI technology to integrity governance, establish an accountability mechanism on the ethical risks, improve integrity governance structure, and strengthen public ethical risk education.
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  Model Worker: Production, Construction,and Functional Examination of Labor Honor Symbol——— A Case Study from Shenzhen Public Transport System

  2024, 23(4): 125-135.

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  Model worker, as the power of role models, plays a role in labor and moral demonstration. The establishment of labor models is a very important issue in promoting economic and social development. The existing research on model workers has certain limitations, neglecting the role of model workers as ″processes″. Policies, organizations, media, and individuals are not only the main participants and promoters in the production logic chain of ″model workers″, but also the main constructors of the symbolic capital of ″model workers″. The production of ″model workers″ is the result of the duality of structure and actors. the construction of ″model workers″ covers four stages: symbol capital acquisition, cultivation, reinforcement, and extension. the ultimate goal of the production and construction of ″model workers″ is to maximize the positive function of ″model workers″.
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  Resolving Resistance and Derogation of Rights: The Dual Dilemma of Unstable Platform Workers

  2024, 23(4): 136-148.

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  Crowdsourcing work on platforms is not entirely an inevitable result of economic development, but rather a deliberate act of capital. The ″unstable workers″ under the power of platform algorithms face two major dilemmas: offline gig workers facing the situation of collective adversarial strategies and actions being dissolved, and ghost workers hidden behind artificial intelligence and automation facing the problem of reduced rights, treatment, and protection. Platform workers form various informal groups through geographical and professional connections, and use loopholes in various rules to ″drill holes″ in the system. While the resistance of workers is quietly resolved by the platform, it is secretly transformed into a driving force for the platform′s brain to upgrade. The new platform work represented by ghost work has dissolved traditional labor relations, avoided legal obligations, and transformed the platform from an employer to a service provider that matches both labor and management. At the same time, the dehumanization in the human-machine cooperation loop deepens the self-control of workers. Through the analysis of the labor operation mechanisms of two types of digital platforms, it can be seen that platform workers are trapped in a rigid cycle of self-depletion. The self-employment of unstable platform workers intensifies the discipline of capital on workers, becoming a new paradigm of labor alienation in the digital platform era.
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  Research on Cooperative Parenting under the Three-Child Policy

  2024, 23(4): 149-160.

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  Under the background of the three-child policy and the change of gender concept, the cooperative parenting model of parents is conducive to alleviating the gap between fertility willingness and fertility policy. There are four successful experiences in cooperative parenting: mothers should guide fathers to participate in parenting, and both sides of parents should actively communicate, reach a consensus, and adopt a clear and flexible division of labor; work unit support, grandparents support, childcare services and community support are three conditions conducive to the realization of parental cooperating; cooperative parenting plays a role in promoting the diversified development of children, the development of husband-wife relationship, the harmonious relationship between parents and grandparents, and the self-growth of parents; and it is necessary to take measures from the concept of social co-parenting, parenting support policies, public space construction, flexible work arrangements, and the construction of parenting talent teams to promote the construction of a child-friendly society, alleviate the pressure of co operative parenting, promote the development of this type of parenting, and increase the possibility of individuals responding to the three-child policy.