Analysis of Hotspots and Trends in Social Governance Research in China

摘要

Since the 1990s, Chinese academic circles have gradually carried out theoretical and practical research on social governance, which has become a hot topic of concern to the academic community. In order to understand the development status of social governance research in China, and sort out the hot issues and development context of this research field, the article uses CiteSpace software for document visualization analysis. It mines information on the social governance research results published in the core journals of CNKI and CSSCI from 1993 to 2019. It is found that there are four main research trends in social governance literature: the research of social governance practice follows the social transformation, the action system of social governance tends to be diversified, the research on the evaluation of social governance level has increased, and the research on the choice of social governance path is more abundant.