Governmental Responsibilities for Modernizing Sport Governance System and Governance Capacity in the New Era——An Analysis Based on Meta-governance Theory and Sport Reform Practices

By means of document research, practical investigation, logical analysis and other research methods, this study focuses on governmental responsibilities for modernizing sport governance system and governance capacity and holds the view that the modernization of sport governance relies on the combination of the past, the present and the future, the proper cognition of multiple subjects' status and positive interaction, and rational disposition of the relation between “what it is” and “what it should be”. The incomplete equivalence of governance theory in the western context and domestic context is analyzed. Basedon meta-governance theory, this study holds that the governmental responsibilities for sport governance modernization should include the following contents: developing people-centered sports, constructing legal and service-oriented governments; laying more emphasis on interior meta-governance, carrying out good policies in sports and constructing a “strong government” in sports; paying more efforts on supporting and optimizing social organizations and market subjects of sports to expand the “sport-great-society”; achieving the wide participation of “government-market-society-individual” in sports governance to promote the meta-synergy of governance. Moreover, after observing the reform practices of General Administration of Sport of China, this study discusses the responsibilities of the government and its defects in realizing governance modernization. In general, although General Administration of Sport of China has achieved the infrastructure on the conscious level and the top design level, problems still exist: the general awareness of reform needs to be enhanced, the mechanism for the general public to participate in sport governance should be redesigned, the interior governance mechanism of the government is still deficient, and operational dilemma is encountered when breeding governance subjects. Based on the aforementioned, a series of optimization approaches are put forward in this article: the government should balance its responsibility goal in sports, carry out the integral governance of sport administration, implement self-governance of social market subjects, facilitate synergized inter-construction among multiple subjects, propel the legal process of sport governance, strengthen the guarantee system for meta-governance, etc.