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Journal of International Security Studies

region.
[Keywords] Asian security, new security concept, security governance, historical
analysis
[Author] WANG Yajun, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Economics and Management,
Tongji University (Shanghai, 200092).

23 Service Transformation of Government Supply Paradigm from the
Perspective of People’s Security
YANG Huafeng

[Abstract] People’s security is an important yardstick for measuring the modernization
of state governance. From the perspective of human security, people’s security is a
public good in the political market. As regards the demand side, it presents such
three dimensions as survival, life and freedom in terms of basic need. As far as the

supply side is concerned, it includes two levels of supply, the institutional supply as
a government paradigm and the specific service supply as a public good. Changes in
the institutional paradigm provide clear directions, guarantees and paths for changes
in product supply. According to different combinations of policy support and
resource acquisition under the security supply framework, the government supply
paradigm can be divided into four types: dominant, inactive, predatory and
service-oriented which present their respective supply efficiency and sequence
preference. Among them, the predatory and dominant governments, owing to their
centralized preference for political security, have specific preferences in their
understanding of the relationship between governance capacity, security status and
public perception and thus tend to construct a supply order of “capacity>status>
perception”. In this context, the precondition for people’s security supply is the
guarantee of political security. According to the operational logic of a
service-oriented government, people’s security is no longer embedded in political
security but instead has become the logical starting point and ontological content of
political security. Therefore, the effective satisfaction of the needs of people’s
security depends on a paradigm shift of government’s behavioral preference, from
“predatory” to “dominant” and to “service-oriented”. This historical process mirrors

the structural transformation of the supply subject, supply strategy and mode of
people’s security. With the changes of people’s awareness, the government will
surely, in the process of modernization of security governance, enhance the

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