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Secretary ›› 2026, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 35-49.

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Whether the Local Government Problem Identification Behavior Avoid Critical Issues?—An Empirical Study on the Text Data of Provincial Government Information Disclosure Annual Report

LI XueFANG Li   

  • Online:2026-03-25 Published:2026-05-06

Abstract:

In order to improve the local government transparency with the help of the social supervision, the mandatory problem identification mechanism was enshrined in government information disclosure annual report institution,which enforce the local government identify and disclose the problems in transparency construction. With the help of grounded-rooted theory method this research summarizes the implementation problems defined by the local government,which is based on the text analysis of the relative part in annual reports of local government information disclosure of 29 provincial governments in 11 years. Also,the rational motivation behind the problem recognition behavior is deeply revealed. Subsequently,the practical influence of the problem identification behavior is verified through the Chi-square test method with the relative data. The research finds that the local government problem identification behavior of government information disclosure institution has obvious tendency to avoid the critical issues with selective characteristic. The problem identify behavior can neither reflect the regional difference,also does not contribute to improve the performance of the information disclosure.

Key words:

 , local  , government, information  , disclosure, institutional  , implementation, problem identification mechanism